Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire
John Sell Cotman
1803
Medium
Watercolor and graphite with reductive techniques
Dimensions
sheet: 11 15/16 x 8 1/4 in. (30.3 x 21 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Fletcher Fund, 2007
Accession Number
2007.39
Tags
ChurchesRuinsCows
About the Artist
John Sell Cotman · 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...