1812
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Mousehold Heath is a 1812 by John Crome, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a wild landscape with windmills in the background. The artist chose a dramatic scene with a low horizon. The stormy sky adds to the drama, showing nature's power. The painting is set near the artist's home in England. This setting is typical of the artist's work, often depicting local scenery. Look up the work of John Crome to see more of his landscapes.
As with most of Crome’s landscapes, the scenery depicted is located close to his Norwich home. Mousehold Heath, with its panoramic view and low-lying horizon, is the most dramatic of the artist’s thirty-three etchings. The foreground of untamed, uncultivated land is juxtaposed with windmills in the background, signs of man’s attempt to harness nature and make it complicit in its own taming and domestication. The stormy, windswept sky indicates the true character of such natural forces to be ultimately uncontrollable.
Read the full account in the museum source.
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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