Wooded Landscape

probably 1841

John Sell Cotman

Artist, British, 1782 - 1842

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk heightened with white on brown wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William B. O'Neal

  • Dimensions

    overall: 28.7 x 37.3 cm (11 5/16 x 14 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.52.30


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London); purchased by William B. O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, January 1980; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1993

  • Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993, no. 45.

1996

  • Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, 4 May-16 June, 1996.

Bibliography

1993

  • NGA O'Neal 1993, ex 45.

Inscriptions

upper right in black chalk: + Gold green / 3 yellow do / 4 bright Light-green; lower left in black chalk: + / Brown Stems (repeated twice); center left in black chalk: ash Leafy Leafy; notations (+, 3, 4) in black chalk overall; center verso in black chalk: soft yellow; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 56; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 20 / D726AXX

Wikidata ID

Q64583984


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