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Preston Church near Weymouth

Drawing
1816, November 21 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

View of Preston Church with graveyard and mourning figure in pencil on paper. The verso has a drawing of an interior of the church with the clergymen in the pulpit.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitlePreston Church near Weymouth (popular title)
Materials and techniques
pencil on paper
Brief description
Drawing, Preston Church near Weymouth, by John Constable, pencil on paper, 1816
Physical description
View of Preston Church with graveyard and mourning figure in pencil on paper. The verso has a drawing of an interior of the church with the clergymen in the pulpit.
Dimensions
  • Height: 11.5cm
  • Width: 18.1cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 21st. Novr. 1816. (Inscribed in the lower left corner in pencil by the artist.)
  • Preston--near Weymouth (Inscribed in pencil by the artist on the larger paper on which the drawing is mounted.)
Historical context
In 1816 Constable exhibited 'The Wheatfield' and 'A Wood: Autumn' at the Royal Academy. His father died on 14 May. He spent some of the summer in Suffolk and paid two visits to Wivenhoe. He was married by his friend John Fisher to Miss Bicknell on 2 October at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, and they spent part of the honeymoon staying with Fisher at his vicarage at Osmington, Dorsetshire.

[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 110]
Subject depicted
Place depicted
Bibliographic reference
Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 110, 113, 114
Other number
153, plate 125 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Accession number
303-1888

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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