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David Cox the Elder

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David Cox was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of Impressionism.

Source: Artsy · Trust score: 85% · Updated 1mo ago

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Artworks (7)

A Mountain Torrent

1845 · Black and white chalk, and charcoal on cream wove paper

53.1 × 73.3 cm (20 15/16 × 28 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Lancaster: Peace and War

1842 · Watercolor, with touches of gouache, black chalk, and scraping, selectively varnished with gum arabic, on cream wove paper

49.7 × 76 cm (19 5/8 × 29 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

A French Market Scene, possibly Boulogne

1829 · Watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor, over graphite, on off-white wove paper, edge mounted onto buff wove paper, ruled in the margins with pen and brown ink

Primary support: 16.6 × 20.8 cm (6 9/16 × 8 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 18.5 × 22.8 cm (7 5/16 × 9 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

A Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Water Colours: From the First Rudiments, to the Finished Picture No. 1

1813 · Book with six etchings and letterpress in black on cream wove paper, in box

Book: 30.3 × 49 × 0.5 cm (11 15/16 × 19 5/16 × 1/4 in.); Box: 33.5 × 50.9 × 4.5 cm (13 1/4 × 20 1/16 × 1 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

View in Wales

1813 · Watercolor with black pastel on ivory wove paper, partially laid down on ivory wove paper

25 × 36 cm (9 7/8 × 14 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Langham, South Wales

1803 · Graphite on cream wove paper, laid down on board

20.1 × 28 cm (7 15/16 × 11 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Pont Pwl Gwyn, River Usk

1803 · Graphite on buff wove paper, laid down on buff wove paper

20.3 × 28 cm (8 × 11 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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