# Horse Chestnut

- By: John Robert Cozens (London, 1752–1797)
- Date: 1789
- Medium: paper
- Classification: print
- Dimensions: height 243 mm x width 317 mm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-P-2014-16-13--a0ae87176e794a24c152160f1bff329d)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/JHJfU/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.