Cattle grazing in a mountainous landscape

細節

John Sell Cotman (1782-1842)
Cattle grazing in a mountainous landscape
signed and dated 'J.S. Cotman 1818.-' (lower left)
pencil and grey wash, heightened with white and with scratching out on grey paper
7 5/8 x 10¼ in. (19.5 x 26 cm.)

來源

H.L. Bradfer-Lawrence 1952, and by descent to
Mrs. P.J.G. Gray and by descent in the family.

注意事項

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拍品專文

The present drawing is close in style to drawings executed on Cotman's 1818 tour of Normandy; see Château Gaillard, Normandy, dated 24 July 1818, in Tate Britain (V. Rienaecker, John Sell Cotman, Leigh-on-Sea, 1953, p. 72).
Cotman made three tours of Normandy in 1817, 1818 and 1820. Kitson wrote of the tour 'No sepia or water-colour drawings made on the spot survive among his Normandy sketches, and it seems that Cotman did not take painting materials with him. He relied upon his pencil and upon his memory' (S. Kitson, The Life of John Sell Cotman, London, 1937, p. 194). His drawings were published in Architectural Antiquities of Normandy finally published in two volumes in 1822.
In 1818 Cotman also published Excursions in the County of Norfolk and Excursions in the County of Suffolk.