Sketch of Mont Saint Michel (recto); Buildings Beside Water (verso)
John Sell Cotman
c. 1818
Medium
Graphite (recto and verso) on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
7.4 × 13.8 cm (2 15/16 × 5 7/16 in.)
Classification
graphite
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
112192
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...