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
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...