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Thorn
Also titled Meidoorn
John Robert Cozens (London, 1752–1797)
1789
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- height 240 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
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Cozens generally bathes the rising ground in the foreground in sunlight. Here the hill on which the hawthorns grow is shaded, while the sun catches the crown of the trees. Perhaps the sun is just rising. Bright sunlight also shines on the landscape further back. This contrast of dark and light heightens the sense of receding distance.
