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Horse Chestnut
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Towering over a flat meadow and sheltering a herd of deer, these horse chestnuts were surely sketched at an English country estate. An interesting aspect is the way Cozens preferred to render shaded areas with the coarse, chalk-like lines produced by soft-ground etching (vernis mou) rather than the even aquatint tones.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineHorse Chestnut. 1789. John Robert Cozens. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
