"John Sell Cotman (1782-1842) East End of the Church of St Jacques at Dieppe, 1819 Graphite and brown wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, 11 5/8 × 8 7/8 ins, 295 × 225 mm Inscribed in graphite, lower right: ""East End of St. Jacques at Dieppe."", Collector's mark: RIBA blind embossed stamp, Signed and dated in graphite, lower left: ""J. S. Cotman 1819."" USA, New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1975.2.563 Cotman sketched this subject on 23 June 1817. His original sketch is lost, and this is a studio work typical of the monochrome drawings that he made as the basis of his etchings for the 'Architectural Antiquities of Normandy', published in 1822. Photo courtesy of Yale Center for British Art"
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