Mountain Landscape

nationality
British
birth-death
1728-1821
Artist
nationality
British
birth-death
1717-1786
Creation date
Collection
Prints
Materials
mezzotint
Dimensions
9 x 12 1/8 in (image) 14 1/4 x 19 1/4 in (sheet)
Not Currently On View
Credit line
James V. Sweetser and Mary and Agnes Wetsell Funds
Accession number
1988.39
Gallery Label

Cozens, a drawing master, devised a system for his pupils to compose a landscape from blots of ink on paper.

Calling it A New Method of Assisting the Invention in Drawing Original Compositions of Landscape, Cozens published his manual with instructive illustrations of blots and compositions.

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