Ruined Castle
John Sell Cotman
1823–42
Medium
Watercolor over graphite
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 1/16 × 10 11/16 in. (20.5 × 27.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1906
Accession Number
06.1051.4
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
AnimalsCastlesRuinsHuman Figures
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...