Art, literature & history
Mousehold Heath
c. 1810–13
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Collection no.
- 1987.89
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Crome. Mousehold Heath. John Crome; The Cleveland Museum of Art; John L. Severance Fund. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Mousehold Heath — John Crome. c. 1810–13.
Medium: etching. Dimensions: .
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
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.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.