Lakenham, Near Norwich
Medium
Soft-ground etching
Dimensions
Plate: 9 5/16 × 6 3/8 in. (23.6 × 16.2 cm) Sheet: 13 7/16 × 9 1/2 in. (34.1 × 24.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.100(40)
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Lakenham, Near** (1838) is a delicate soft-ground etching by John Sellman, a leading figure in the Norwich School painters, in collaboration with Henry George B. Capturing a serene English village scene near Norwich, the print features everyday charm with houses, girls, and playful dogs, evoking the rural idyll of early 19th-century East Anglia. Measuring 9 5/16 × 6 3/8 inches on the plate, its intimate scale invites close viewing, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, acquired through the Rogers Fund in 1922. Cotman's mastery shines in the soft-grou...
About the Artist
John Sell Cotman|Henry George Bohn · 1782–1842
John Sell Cotman (1782–1842) was one of the most original and technically innovative English watercolorists of his generation, a central figure of the Norwich School whose bold, flattened compositions and luminous washes of color place him among the most modern-feeling of early nineteenth-century British artists. Born in Norwich, Norfolk, Cotman moved to London as a young man and studied in the ci...