John Sell Cotman (1782-1842) [Aw89]
CHURCH OF FONTAINE-LE-HENRI, NEAR CAEN, 1818
Pencil and sepia wash; signed and dated in pencil lower right: J.S. Cotman 1818. Inscribed in pencil lower left: Elevations of the South and East Front of the Church of Fontaine-le-Henri, near Caen (H. 22cm, W. 43cm)
Exhibited: Ulster Museum, 1980
Literature: Miklos Rajnal, John Sell Cotman: Drawings of Normandy in Norwich Castle Museum (Norfolk, 1975), p. 71
Engraved: Cotman, The Architectural Antiquities of Normandy (1822), pl. 61
Provenance: Cotman’s studio sale, Christie’s, 1st May 1824, lot 61; Major-General Sir John D’Arcy Anderson and Lady Elizabeth Anderson, by whom given to Winchester College, 1993