Mountain Landscape with a Hollow
Alexander Cozens
c. 1770
Medium
brush drawing in brown wash on laid paper
Dimensions
Overall: 23 x 30.3 cm (9 1/16 x 11 15/16 in.) overall (mount): 33.3 x 43.3 cm (13 1/8 x 17 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1984.68.1
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...