Landscape with Riverbed and Mountains
1770–86
Medium
Brush and gray and yellow wash; laid down on original paper mount with gray wash
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 1/8 × 12 5/16 in. (23.2 × 31.2 cm) Mount: 13 3/4 in. × 17 5/16 in. (35 × 43.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930
Accession Number
30.49.7
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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...