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Landscape with Riverbed and Mountains

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Landscape with Riverbed and Mountains

Alexander Cozens

1770–86

Medium

Brush and gray and yellow wash; laid down on original paper mount with gray wash

Tags

Rivers Mountains Landscapes

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)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Alexander Cozens

1717–1786 • Russian EmpireKingdom of Great Britain

Cozens' early years were spent in St. Petersburg, where his father, Richard, originally from Deptford, England, was a master shipbuilder to Peter the Great. Alexander was educated in England from 1727. He is known as the first major English artist devoted to landscape, known for his method of using accidental blots to suggest landscape forms; his treatise explaining the method drew on Leonardo da Vinci. Usually monochromatic, his work suggests the power and mystery of nature. Comment on works: Landscapes

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