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The Cottage in a Cornfield, East Bergholt.

Drawing
ca. 1815 (made)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (artist)
Place of origin
East Bergholt (made)

Page from a sketchbook on light green paper. Pencil drawing of a cottage.


Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitleThe Cottage in a Cornfield, East Bergholt. (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil
Brief description
Drawing, 'The Cottage in a Cornfield' by Constable.
Physical description
Page from a sketchbook on light green paper. Pencil drawing of a cottage.
Dimensions
  • Height: 10.2cm
  • Width: 7.9cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • EB (Inscribed by the artist at top with an inscription of which EB is alone now legible.)
    Translation
    East Bergholt
  • The Cottage in the Cornfield. (Inscribed on the back, probably not by the artist.)
Credit line
Given by Isabel Constable, daughter of the artist
Historical context
In 1815 Constable exhibited five paintings and three drawings at the Royal Academy, including 'Boat-building' (No. 137). His mother died early this year and he was in Suffolk in May. He left London again for Suffolk on 6 July and remained there most of the year, being detained during December by his father's serious illness.

[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 106]
Subject depicted
Cottages
Bibliographic references
  • Parris, Leslie and Fleming-Williams, Ian. Constable London : The Tate Gallery, 1991 257
  • Gray, Anne and John Gage, Constable: impressions of land, sea and sky, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2006
  • Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 106, 109, 110
Other number
145, plate 117 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
828-1888

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Record createdJuly 10, 2006
Record URL
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