Etchings
Etchings is a set of prints by John Sell Cotman, published in London in 1811 by Boydell, Colnaghi, Todd and Whyte for a general audience of collectors and art lovers. The pictures are fine-line etched views of English medieval ruins, with arches, broken walls and ivy, often with a small figure seated or standing in the foreground for scale; a designer might borrow their hatched, sketchy linework and the picturesque framing of decay.
