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Mountainous Landscape with Cattle and River - Tower of Arkinlow

John Sell Cotman, c. 1803

The Courtauld Gallery, London

This drawing was probably made by Cotman in 1800 when he was staying with the bookseller Joseph Cottle at Bristol. Cottle had recently published the poems of Robert Southey, and it was Southey's lines which inspired this dramatic composition: High on a rock whose castle's shade Darkened the lake below In ancient strength majestic stood The Tower of Arkinlow.

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Title of artwork, date

Mountainous Landscape with Cattle and River - Tower of Arkinlow, c. 1803

Date supported

1988

Medium and material

Grey washes over pencil

Dimensions

24 x 43 cm

Grant

3011

Total cost

3011

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