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View over a wide landscape, with trees in the foreground

Watercolour
September 1832 (made)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (artist)
Place of origin
England (made)

Landscape with trees, clouds.


Object details

Categories
Watercolours
Landscapes
Object type
Watercolour
TitleView over a wide landscape, with trees in the foreground (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil and watercolour on thin paper
Pencil
Paper (Fiber Product)
Watercolour (Paint)
Drawing (Image-Making)
Watercolour Painting (Technique)
Brief description
Watercolour, View over a wide landscape, with trees in the foreground, by John Constable, 1832
Physical description
Landscape with trees, clouds.
Dimensions
  • Height: 186mm
  • Width: 222mm
Style
British School
Marks and inscriptions
  • '12 till 2--looking--East towards the ...(?) Sepr...[date erased]--1832.' (Inscribed by the artist in pencil on the back.)
  • '17' (Serial number inscribed at top right on the back in ink.)
Credit line
Given by Isabel Constable, daughter of the artist
Historical context
'In 1832 Constable exhibited at the Royal Academy four oil paintings and four drawings. The oil paintings included 'Waterloo Bridge, from Whitehall Stairs, June 18th, 1817' (formerly in the collection of Mr. Harry H. Ferguson; see Nos. 173-175 [290-1888, 322-1888, 604-1888] in this Catalogue); 'A Romantic House, Hampstead' (probably National Gallery No. 1246) and 'Sir Richard Steele's Cottage, Hampstead' (now in the collection of Sir Kenneth Clark). The drawings included one of 'Jaques and the Wounded Stag' (see No. 407 [795-1888] in this Catalogue). Archdeacon John Fisher died on 25 August.'

[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 204]
Subject depicted
Landscape
Bibliographic references
  • The Abstraction of Landscape: From Northern Romanticism to Abstract Impressionism, Madrid: Fundación Juan March, 2007 30
  • Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 204, 207-208
Other number
345, pl. 256 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
597-1888

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Record createdJune 13, 2006
Record URL
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