Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire (1810): Art, History and Details

Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire (1810) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is John Sell Cotman (British, 1782–1842).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Rievaulx Abbey belongs to Cotman’s first series of etchings, published in 1811. The thirteen images depict the landscape of Yorkshire and picturesque architectural views such as rural cottages, ancient stone walls, and overgrown, ruined abbeys. The crumbling Gothic church was a quintessentially Romantic theme, intended to allude to a lost past.

Object facts

• Title: Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire
• Date: 1810
• Creator attribution: John Sell Cotman (British, 1782–1842)
• Culture: England, 19th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: etching
• Collection: PR - Etching
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1991.233

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.