Materials & Techniques: gray wash / On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Creator: Cotman, John Sell, 1782–1842

1. Castle in a Landscape

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 11 1/8 inches (17.5 x 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Elevation of the Church of Columbiers, near Valognes, Normandy

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, yellow wash, and gray wash on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 12 3/4 inches (22.5 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Interior of Norwich Cathedral: Doorway and Screen Between the South Transept and the Aisle of the Presbytery

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 7 inches (25.4 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Cader Idris from the Mawddach Estuary above Barmouth

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Black ink and gray wash over graphite on medium smooth cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches (12.1 x 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Studies of Five Coffin Lids from ?Norfolk Churches

Creator:: attributed to John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Yellow and gray wash with graphite on medium smooth cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 14 7/8 inches (27.3 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Studies of Four Coffin Lids from ?Norfolk Churches

Creator:: attributed to John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Yellow and gray wash over graphite on medium smooth cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 14 7/8 inches (27.3 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Study of a Coffin Lid from a (?) Norfolk Church

Creator:: attributed to John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Yellow and gray wash over graphite on medium smooth cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches (27.3 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Five Coffin Lids from ?Norfolk Churches

Creator:: attributed to John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Yellow and gray wash over graphite on medium smooth cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 14 7/8 inches (27.3 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Study of a Coffin Lid from Houghton Churchyard, Norfolk

Creator:: attributed to John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Gray and yellow wash over graphite on medium smooth cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches (37.5 x 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Studies of Two Coffin Lids from Norfolk Churches

Creator:: attributed to John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Yellow and gray wash over graphite on medium smooth cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/8 x 10 7/8 inches (37.8 x 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Studies of Two Coffin Lids from (?) Norfolk Churches

Creator:: attributed to John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Yellow and gray wash over graphite on medium smooth cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 10 7/8 inches (38.1 x 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. South Side of Catfield Church, Norfolk

Creator:: follower of John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 11 5/8 inches (18.7 x 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. A Chest in Dersingham Church, Norfolk

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 15 inches (19.1 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Loch Ranza Castle, Isle of Arran, Scotland

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 7 7/8 inches (27 x 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Raynham Hall, Norfolk

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, gray wash and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches (15.9 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. East End of Howden Church, Yorkshire

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/8 x 11 3/4 inches (39.1 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Brecon Bridge

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Gray and black wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 15 7/8 inches (21.6 x 40.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Bolton Priory, Yorkshire

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches (22.2 x 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. A Font in Walsoken Church, Norfolk

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 5 1/4 inches (17.8 x 13.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Font at Caister Church, Norfolk

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 x 6 1/4 inches (13.7 x 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. West Window of Snettisham Church, Norfolk

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches (20.6 x 15.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Church of Graville near Havre de Grace, Normandy: End of the North Transept

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 9 5/8 × 7 1/8 inches (24.4 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Perspective Elevation of Part of the Abbey Church of Saint Stephen at Caen, Normandy

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 9 7/8 inches (38.1 x 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Ingham Church, Norfolk

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches (19.1 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Hever Castle, Kent

Creator:: attributed to John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 11 inches (19.4 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Studies of Five Coffin Lids from ?Norfolk Churches

Creator:: attributed to John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Yellow and gray wash over graphite on medium smooth cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 14 7/8 inches (27.9 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Study of a Coffin Lid from a (?) Norfolk Church

Creator:: attributed to John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Yellow and gray wash over graphite on medium smooth cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 10 1/2 inches (38.1 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Studies of Two Coffin Lids from (?) Norfolk Churches

Creator:: attributed to John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Yellow and gray wash over graphite on medium slightly textured cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/8 x 10 5/8 inches (38.4 x 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Byland Abbey, Yorkshire

Creator:: imitator of John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 x 10 inches (35.2 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. West Front of Byland Abbey, Yorkshire

Creator:: imitator of John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 x 6 1/4 inches (21.3 x 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Castle in a Landscape

2. Elevation of the Church of Columbiers, near Valognes, Normandy

3. Interior of Norwich Cathedral: Doorway and Screen Between the South Transept and the Aisle of the Presbytery

4. Cader Idris from the Mawddach Estuary above Barmouth

5. Studies of Five Coffin Lids from ?Norfolk Churches

6. Studies of Four Coffin Lids from ?Norfolk Churches

7. Study of a Coffin Lid from a (?) Norfolk Church

8. Five Coffin Lids from ?Norfolk Churches

9. Study of a Coffin Lid from Houghton Churchyard, Norfolk

10. Studies of Two Coffin Lids from Norfolk Churches

11. Studies of Two Coffin Lids from (?) Norfolk Churches

12. South Side of Catfield Church, Norfolk

13. A Chest in Dersingham Church, Norfolk

14. Loch Ranza Castle, Isle of Arran, Scotland

15. Raynham Hall, Norfolk

16. East End of Howden Church, Yorkshire

17. Brecon Bridge

18. Bolton Priory, Yorkshire

19. A Font in Walsoken Church, Norfolk

20. Font at Caister Church, Norfolk

21. West Window of Snettisham Church, Norfolk

22. Church of Graville near Havre de Grace, Normandy: End of the North Transept

23. Perspective Elevation of Part of the Abbey Church of Saint Stephen at Caen, Normandy

24. Ingham Church, Norfolk

25. Hever Castle, Kent

26. Studies of Five Coffin Lids from ?Norfolk Churches

27. Study of a Coffin Lid from a (?) Norfolk Church

28. Studies of Two Coffin Lids from (?) Norfolk Churches

29. Byland Abbey, Yorkshire

30. West Front of Byland Abbey, Yorkshire