Wooded Landscape

probably 1841

John Sell Cotman

Associated Names
John Sell Cotman

Artist, British, 1782 - 1842

The image shows a sketch of a natural landscape featuring trees and dense foliage viewed from ground level. The forest canopy dominates the scene, obscuring the horizon. The trees are varied in size and spread out across the composition, with some surrounding a small opening. The sketch is done in pencil on a light paper, using varying shades of gray. The lines are loose and flowing, capturing the details of leaves and branches. The texture of the strokes ranges from bold to light, depicting different aspects of the scene.

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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 Number

    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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