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The Monk's Entrance Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire

Artist and publisher John Sell Cotman British
1819
Not on view
A leader of the Norwich School (artists based near that Norfolk town who developed a distinctive local landscape style), Crome worked in oils, watercolors, and as a drawing master, and is remembered as an expressive etcher. From 1809, he created rustic images derived from plein-air sketches that anticipate the Etching Revival. Unpublished during Crome's lifetime, sets titled "Norfolk Picturesque Scenery, Consisting of Thirty-One Etchings" were issued in 1834 to benefit his widow.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Monk's Entrance Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire
  • Series/Portfolio: Antiquities of Saint Mary's Chapel, at Stourbridge, near Cambridge, etc. etc.
  • Artist and publisher: John Sell Cotman (British, Norwich 1782–1842 London)
  • Date: 1819
  • Medium: Etching
  • Dimensions: Plate: 12 13/16 × 9 3/4 in. (32.6 × 24.7 cm)
    Sheet: 14 15/16 × 10 13/16 in. (38 × 27.5 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985
  • Object Number: 1986.1180.1629
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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