Cley Church, Norfolk

Prints and Drawings

1818

John Sell Cotman
English, 1782-1842

Unlike academic, London-based painters who romanticized the English countryside, John Cotman and other members of the Norwich School painted landscapes in their immediate surroundings. This drawing of Saint Margaret’s in the village of Cley-next-the-Sea exhibits Cotman’s heightened attention to perspective and architectural detail as opposed to vegetation and atmospheric effects. Drawings such as this one allowed Cotman to translate his renderings of historic architecture into printed form. Between 1810 and 1822, over 400 prints from his own sketches were published in travel books, including Excursions through the County of Norfolk, which features a print made from this drawing.

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Artist: John Sell Cotman
Title: Cley Church, Norfolk
Place: England (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1818
Medium: Graphite and gray wash on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: 17.3 × 26.9 cm (6 13/16 × 10 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.340
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