Berk, by John Robert Cozens, 1789
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Berk

Also titled Birch

John Robert Cozens (London, 1752–1797)

1789

Medium
paper, ink
Classification
print
Dimensions
height 242 mm x width 317 mm
Museum
Rijksmuseum
Credit line
Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds
Rights
Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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About this work

Some sets of Cozens’s prints of trees are more developed than others. In some of the published prints, the etched drawing appears without the aquatint hues. Here, for example, the aquatint which provides the contrast between the clouds and the trees is missing.