Gorge with Tree Stumps
John Sell Cotman
1776 to 1800
Medium
graphite with brown and gray wash and white heightening on gray wove paper
Dimensions
overall (approximate): 16.2 x 11.6 cm (6 3/8 x 4 9/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1951.16.181
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...