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Dedham Vale: Evening

Oil Painting
July 1802 (made)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (artist)
Place of origin
England (made)

Oil on canvas entitled 'Dedham Vale: Evening'.


Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Oil painting
TitleDedham Vale: Evening
Materials and techniques
Oil on canvas
Oil Paint
Canvas
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil painting, 'Dedham Vale: Evening', John Constable, 1802
Physical description
Oil on canvas entitled 'Dedham Vale: Evening'.
Dimensions
  • Approx. height: 31.8cm
  • Approx. width: 43.2cm
  • Frame height: 51.8cm
  • Frame width: 71.9cm
  • Frame depth: 4cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973
Style
British School
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'July 1802'
  • 'Towards Evening painted by J constable RA 1802' (Inscribed in pencil on the stretcher; presumably based on the original inscription (the canvas was relined in 1893))
Credit line
Given by Isabel Constable
Object history
Given by Isabel Constable, 1888
Historical context
'Constable exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy in 1802, his entry being called 'A Landscape'; this painting has not yet been identified. He visited Windsor in May (see Nos. 33-35), and was at East Bergholt in the summer and autumn.'

[G Reynolds]
Place depicted
Dedham Vale
Bibliographic references
  • Parris, Leslie and Fleming-Williams, Ian. Constable London : The Tate Gallery, 1991 no.32
  • Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, cat. no. 36
  • G. Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum: Catalogue of the Constable Collection, 1973, pp. 44-48
  • Evans, M., with N. Costaras and C. Richardson, John Constable. Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: V&A, 2011, p. 40, cat. no. 1.
  • P. 235 Carolina Brook and Valter Curzi, eds., Hogarth, Reynolds, Turner : British painting and the rise of modernity Milan : Skira, c2014. ISBN: 9788857222714.
  • p. 87 David Jackson, Werner Busch, Jenny Reynaerts, Andreas Blühm, and Ruud Schenk Romanticism in the North : from Friedrich to Turner. Groningen : Groninger Museum ; Zwolle : WBooks, [2017]. ISBN: 9789462582415
Other number
36 - Reynolds Catalogue No.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
587-1888

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Record createdJune 12, 2006
Record URL
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