1813
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
At Bawburgh is a 1813 by John Crome, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This drawing shows a quiet, misty landscape with two bare trees standing on a grassy slope. A small stream winds through the scene, and the sky above is filled with soft, wavy lines. The artist used only black and white, focusing on shapes and shadows. The trees look almost skeletal, with twisted branches reaching into the sky. The ground is dotted with tiny bushes and rocks, giving the scene a sense of stillness. Next, look up Romanticism to see how this style often focused on nature’s moods.
John Crome, once known as Old Crome to distinguish him from his artist son John Berney Crome, was an English landscape painter of the Romantic era, one of the principal artists and founding members of the Norwich School of painters.
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