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Taylor Ghyll, Sty Head, Borrowdale

Drawing
26 September 1806 (made)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (artist)
Place of origin
Borrowdale (made)

View of a rocky landscape with a waterfall in pencil with grey and pink wash.


Object details

Categories
Drawings
Landscapes
Object type
Drawing
TitleTaylor Ghyll, Sty Head, Borrowdale (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil, with grey and pink wash
Pencil
Grey Wash
Paper (Fiber Product)
Ink
Drawing (Image-Making)
Wash Technique
Brief description
Drawing entitled 'Taylor Ghyll, Sty Head, Borrowdale,' by John Constable, 1806, Great Britain. Reynolds cat. no. 75.
Physical description
View of a rocky landscape with a waterfall in pencil with grey and pink wash.
Dimensions
  • Height: 48.3cm
  • Width: 34.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
'26 Sepr. 1806 - Sty Head Fall - or the Taylor's Ghill - Head of Borrowdale' (Inscribed on the back in pencil by the artist.)
Credit line
Given by Isabel Constable, daughter of the artist
Historical context
'Constable's only exhibit at the Royal Academy in 1806 was No. 65 [169-1888]. In June he was at East Bergholt, as is attested by Nos. 66 and 67 [224-1888 and 346-1888]. In the autumn he paid a visit of some two months to the Lake District and made many drawings, among them Nos. 72-94 [794-1888, 348-1888, 192-1888, 812-1888, 170-1888, 185-1888, 188-1888, 184-1888, 187-1888, 178-1888, 179-1888, 177-1888, 193-1888, 183-1888, 1256-1888, 596-1888, 181-1888, 182-1888, 1257-1888, 811-1888, 349-1888].'

[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 56]
Subject depicted
Waterfalls
Places depicted
Lake District
Borrowdale
Bibliographic references
  • Parris, Leslie and Fleming-Williams, Ian. Constable London : The Tate Gallery, 1991 234
  • Hebron, Stephen, Shields, Conal and Wilcox, Timothy, The solitude of mountains: Constable and the Lake District, Grasmere, Wordsworth Trust, 2006
  • Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 56, 59, 64, 65
Other number
75, plate 52. - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
812-1888

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Record createdJuly 7, 2006
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