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John Sell Cotman

Traveler in a Woodland Landscape

1806
graphite and gray wash

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

This drawing is closely related to one in the collection of the Norwich Castle Museum, in which a similarly abstracted figure retreats beneath embowering trees twisted in fantastic shapes.

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