Figure in a Classical Landscape
1755–65
Medium
Brush and brown inks; laid down on original paper mount with double border line in black ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 3/4 × 8 1/8 in. (17.2 × 20.7 cm) Mount: 7 1/16 in. × 8 9/16 in. (18 × 21.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2017
Accession Number
2017.347
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About the Artist
Alexander Cozens
Alexander Cozens (1717–1786) was a pioneering British landscape painter in watercolours, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to English shipbuilder Richard Cozens, who served Peter the Great—the tsar even stood as Alexander's godfather. Educated in England from age ten, he returned to Russia before embarking on a formative journey in 1746, sailing to Italy where he worked in the studio of the esteem...