Peasants on a Road with Cattle in a Meadow
John Joseph Cotman (Great Yarmouth 1814 - Norwich 1878)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1875 (signed and dated)
Materials
Pencil and watercolour on light brown paper
Measurements
318 x 591 mm (12 ½ x 23 ¼ in)
Order this imageCollection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 781345
Summary
Pencil and watercolour on light brown paper, Peasants on a Road with Cattle in a Meadow by John Joseph Cotman (Great Yarmouth 1814 - Norwich 1878), signed and dated, lower right: J. J. Cotman 1875. Gilt frame, glazed; stuck on mount.
Provenance
Mr Bailey, Cavick House, near Wymondham, Norfolk; his daughter, Miss Jane Bailey, ibid.; bequeathed by her to The National Trust in 1994, and allocated to Peckover House
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: on a label: J. J. Cotman (Cavick collection – not in black book); lower left: 10 encircled.
Makers and roles
John Joseph Cotman (Great Yarmouth 1814 - Norwich 1878), artist
References
Nares 1954 Gordon Nares, ‘Cavick House, Norfolk: The Home of Miss S. J. Bailey’, in Country Life, 30 September, 1954 Musson 2006 Jeremy Musson, ‘Cavick House, Norfolk: The Home of Mr and Mrs Christopher Lawrence’, Country Life, 19 October, 2006