John Crome, Mousehold Heath
Severance Fund, 1987.89 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
John Crome

Mousehold Heath

c. 1810–13

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
etching
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-218066

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.

Provenance

Severance Fund, 1987.89

Registry history

  • c. 1810–13 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints

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