Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842, British
Title:
Drainage Mills in the Fens, Croyland, Lincolnshire
Date:
ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
21 3/4 x 36 1/8 inches (55.2 x 91.8 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1974.3.27
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
windmills | storm | meteorology | men | science | costume | drainage | landscape | grain | fens | stream | field | clouds
Associated Places:
Lincolnshire | United Kingdom | Croyland | Europe | England
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
English Romanticism (Center Gallery, Bucknell University, 1990-02-24 - 1990-04-08)

Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 70-71, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Oil on water, oil sketches by British watercolorists , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1986, p. 21, fig. 11, ND467 C67 (YCBA)

John Wilmerding, Essays in honor of Paul Mellon, collector and benefactor, Essays , National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC & Hanover, NH, 1986, p. 8, fig. 6, N7442.2 M455 1986 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:185