1827
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A donkey drawing a cart laden with lobster pots is a 1827 by John Sell Cotman, a Romanticism work, depicting Cart, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a rough, quick drawing of a donkey pulling a cart. The cart is piled with odd, lumpy shapes—maybe lobster pots, maybe just abstract forms. The lines are scratchy and uneven, like the artist was working fast or just doodling. The donkey’s posture looks stiff, almost comical, and the whole scene feels more like a joke than a serious picture. It’s all in pencil, with some areas filled in darker than others. If you like this sketchy, playful style, look up Cotman, John Sell.
A pencil sketch by John Sell Cotman from 1827 depicts a donkey pulling a cart loaded with lobster pots, drawn across two joined sheets of paper.
Read the full account in the museum source.
John Sell Cotman (16 May 1782 – 24 July 1842) was an English marine and landscape painter, etcher, illustrator, and a leading member of the Norwich School of painters.
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