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Southend

Watercolour
23 June 1814 (made)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (artist)
Place of origin
Britain (made)

View of the beach in pencil and watercolour.


Object details

Categories
Watercolours
Landscapes
Drawings
Object type
watercolour
TitleSouthend (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil and watercolour
Pencil
Watercolour
Paper
Watercolour
Brief description
Watercolour, Southend, by John Constable, 1814
Physical description
View of the beach in pencil and watercolour.
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.1cm
  • Width: 10.7cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973
Style
British School
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Southend--evng--23d June 1814 South End Jun 23 1814 [below]' (Inscribed at top in pencil by the artist)
  • 'Prittlewell Church near Southend' (Inscribed on the back in pencil by the artist, referring to an adjacent sheet of the sketch-book, now in the Christchurch Mansion Museum, Ipswich, Prittlewell Church near Southend)
Credit line
Given by Isabel Constable, daughter of the artist
Historical context
In 1814 Constable exhibited at the Royal Academy 'Landscape: Ploughing scen in Suffolk' (see note on No. 122); also 'Landscape: the ferry', probably the painting in Mill Stream' now in the Ipswich Museum. He visited the Revd. Mr. Driffield at Feering in June (see Nos. 124-128) and spent much of the rest of the year in Suffolk.

[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 90]
Place depicted
SouthEnd
Bibliographic reference
Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 90, 93-95
Other number
124, plate 100 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
D.228-1888

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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