Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842, British
Title:
Drainage Mills in the Fens, Croyland, Lincolnshire
Date:
ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
21 3/4 x 36 1/8 inches (55.2 x 91.8 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1974.3.27
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
men | grain | storm | science | meteorology | drainage | fens | windmills | stream | costume | landscape | clouds | field
Associated Places:
Lincolnshire | Croyland | Europe | England | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
On view
Exhibition History:
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30)

English Romanticism (Center Gallery, Bucknell University, 1990-02-24 - 1990-04-08)

Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 70-71, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Oil on water : oil sketches by British watercolorists, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1986, p. 21, fig. 11, ND467 C67 (YCBA)

John Wilmerding, Essays in honor of Paul Mellon, collector and benefactor : Essays, , National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC & Hanover, NH, 1986, p. 8, fig. 6, N7442.2 M455 1986 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:185