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Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire

1810

John Sell Cotman

(British, 1782–1842)
Culture
England, 19th century
Medium
etching
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1991.233
Catalogue raisonné
Popham 10
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
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Rievaulx Abbey belongs to Cotman’s first series of etchings, published in 1811. The thirteen images depict the landscape of Yorkshire and picturesque architectural views such as rural cottages, ancient stone walls, and overgrown, ruined abbeys. The crumbling Gothic church was a quintessentially Romantic theme, intended to allude to a lost past.
A vertically oriented print in black ink depicts ruined stone arches. Dense leaf clusters gather atop the crumbling masonry. To our left, a wooden cart rests on a slope near a cow. On our right, another cow stands beside a makeshift shelter. Light from our right casts shadows across the arches and grassy foreground. Fine, hatched lines, most vertical or at slight diagonals, create the scene.

Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire

1810

John Sell Cotman

(British, 1782–1842)
England, 19th century

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