'Plate 2', Alexander Cozens

Artwork details

Artist

Alexander Cozens (1717‑1786)

Title

Plate 2

From Plates 1-16 ('blot' landscapes) for 'A New Method of Assisting the Invention in Drawing Original Compositions of Landscape'

Date c.1785

MediumAquatint on paper

Dimensionsimage: 240 x 314 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Purchased 1980

Reference

T03170

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Catalogue entry

T03170 [from] PLATES 1–16 FOR 'A NEW METHOD OF ASSISTING THE INVENTION IN DRAWING ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS OF LANDSCAPE’ c.1785. [T03169–T03184]

Purchased from Christopher Mendez (Grant-in-Aid) 1980
Aquatints, average size (i) of plates, 9 7/16 × 12 1/8 (24 × 31.8), (ii) of paper, 10 1/2 × 14 1/2 (26.6 × 36.2); individual sizes given below. The plates are numbered (1–16) in the top left or right corner, but not lettered. The sixteen plates correspond to Cozens's ‘Descriptions of the various kinds of composition of Landscape’ in A New Method of Assisting the Invention of Drawing Original Compositions of Landscape, pp.31–3

T03170
Plate 2 '2. The tops of hills or mountains, the horizon below the bottom of the view… (read more)