Art, literature & history
Boats off the Coast, Storm Approaching
1830
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Watercolor over traces of graphite, with gouache (bodycolor), scratching out, stopping out, and gum arabic
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 18 9/16 × 25 11/16 in. (47.2 × 65.2 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2017.75
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Sell Cotman. Boats off the Coast, Storm Approaching. John Sell Cotman; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2017. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
Boats off the Coast, Storm Approaching — John Sell Cotman. 1830.
Medium: Watercolor over traces of graphite, with gouache (bodycolor), scratching out, stopping out, and gum arabic. Dimensions: Sheet: 18 9/16 × 25 11/16 in. (47.2 × 65.2 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2017.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
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.