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The Fallen Tree
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The Fallen Tree

Alexander Cozens

ca. 1785

Medium

Aquatint with additions in brush and gray wash and graphite

Tags

Trees

Dimensions

sheet: 9 x 12 in. (22.8 x 30.5 cm) (trimmed to picture line)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1906

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Alexander Cozens

1717–1786 • Russian EmpireKingdom of Great Britain

Cozens' early years were spent in St. Petersburg, where his father, Richard, originally from Deptford, England, was a master shipbuilder to Peter the Great. Alexander was educated in England from 1727. He is known as the first major English artist devoted to landscape, known for his method of using accidental blots to suggest landscape forms; his treatise explaining the method drew on Leonardo da Vinci. Usually monochromatic, his work suggests the power and mystery of nature. Comment on works: Landscapes

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