The Fallen Tree
Alexander Cozens
ca. 1785
Medium
Aquatint with additions in brush and gray wash and graphite
Dimensions
sheet: 9 x 12 in. (22.8 x 30.5 cm) (trimmed to picture line)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1906
Accession Number
06.1042.17
Tags
Trees
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...