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The Close, Salisbury

Oil
15/07/1829 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Lanscape with figures, trees, and a cloudy sky.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleThe Close, Salisbury (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on paper
Brief description
Oil sketch, 'The Close, Salisbury', Constable, 1829.
Physical description
Lanscape with figures, trees, and a cloudy sky.
Dimensions
  • Approx. height: 26.4cm
  • Approx. width: 20.3cm
  • Frame height: 50.2cm
  • Frame width: 45.2cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Close - 15 July - 1829 11. o clock noon - Wind S.W - very fine.' (Inscribed on the back in pencil by the artist)
  • 'J Constable R.A.' (Inscribed on the back with a copy in ink of the inscription on the front.)
Credit line
Given by Isabel Constable
Object history
Given by Isabel Constable, 1888
Historical context
'Constable was elected R.A. on 10 February 1829. He exhibited 'Hadleigh Castle' (now in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon; see No. 127 [D.234-1888] in this Catalogue) and a landscape of a "rich cottage". He paid his last two visits to Fisher at Salisbury, in July and in November. His preparations for English Landscape Scenery got under way in this year: the earliest letter on the subject to Lucas printed by Shirley (S.: L., p. 20) is dated 28 August 1829.'

[G Reynolds, 1973, p.190]
Place depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Parris, Leslie and Fleming-Williams, Ian. Constable London : The Tate Gallery, 1991 no.141
  • Morris, Edward, ed. Constable's Clouds: Paintings and Cloud Studies by John Constable , Edinburgh : National Galleries of Scotland ; Liverpool : National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, c2000. 176 p. : ill. (some col.). ISBN 1903278058 (paperback), 1903278066 (hardback).
  • Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, p. 190
  • The Abstraction of Landscape: From Northern Romanticism to Abstract Impressionism, Madrid: Fundación Juan March, 2007 49
Other number
312 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Accession number
334-1888

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Record createdJune 13, 2006
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