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Wivenhoe Park

Drawing
1817, August 29 (made)
Artist/Maker
Constable (artist)
Place of origin
Wivenhoe Park (made)

Drawing of a group of cows standing under trees.


Object details

Categories
Drawings
Landscapes
Object type
Drawing
TitleWivenhoe Park (popular title)
Materials and techniques
pencil on paper
Pencil
Paper
Drawing (Image-Making)
Brief description
Drawing, Wivenhoe Park, by John Constable, pencil on paper, 1817
Physical description
Drawing of a group of cows standing under trees.
Dimensions
  • Image and sheet height: 115mm
  • Image and sheet width: 187mm
Styles
British
19th
Marks and inscriptions
  • JOHN DICK 18 (truncated watermark)
  • Wivenhoe Park Augst. 29. 1817 (Inscribed below on left by the artist)
  • 37 (serial number inscribed on the back)
  • Wivenhoe Park (Inscribed on the back)
  • M.L.C. [Maria Louisa Constable] (Inscribed on the back)
Credit line
Given by Isabel Constable, daughter of the Artist, 1888.
Historical context
In 1817 Constable exhibited four works at the Royal Academy: 'Scene on a navigable river' ('Flatford Mill on the River Stour') (Tate Gallery No. 1273); 'A Cottage' (see No. 352 [1631-1888]); 'Wivenhoe Park, Essex, the seat of Major-General Rebow' (National Gallery of Art, Washington: Widener Collection); and a portrait of John Fisher, still in the Fisher family collection. He spent ten weeks of the summer at East Bergholt. His first child, John Charles, was born on 4 December.

[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 115]
Place depicted
Wivenhoe Park
Bibliographic reference
Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 115, 117
Other number
159, plate 129 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
822-1888

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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