Rievaulx Abbey
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An early watercolour of 1803, entitled Ruins of Rievaulx Abbey, by English landscape painter John Cotman, shows the artist's links with the Romantic painters and their love of atmosphere. Cotman later became an archaeological draughtsman, and his understanding of such work is clear, though his later paintings carry a more geometrical simplicity.
| Ruined Cistercian foundation situated near Helmsley, North Yorkshire, England. It dates from 1131, and has a magnificent chancel date from around 1230 and extensive remains among the monastic buildings. |
| The word means ‘valley of the Rye’ from a small river that flows by the ruins. There is also a village of Rievaulx. |
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