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Study of a cart and horses, with a carter and a dog

Oil Sketch
October 1814 (made)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (artist)
Place of origin
England (made)

Oil study of a cart and horses with a man (seen from behind) and dog on paper with a brown ground.


Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Oil sketch
TitleStudy of a cart and horses, with a carter and a dog (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on paper with a brown ground
Oil Paint
Paper
Oil Painting
Brief description
Study in oil of a cart and horses, with a carter and a dog by Constable.
Physical description
Oil study of a cart and horses with a man (seen from behind) and dog on paper with a brown ground.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 16.5cm
  • Estimate width: 23.8cm
  • Frame height: 455mm
  • Frame width: 504mm
  • Frame depth: 40mm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973
Style
British School
Marks and inscriptions
JC (Inscribed on the back with a monogram.)
Credit line
Given by Isabel Constable
Object history
Given by Isabel Constable, 1888
Historical context
In 1814 Constable exhibited at the Royal Academy 'Landscape: Ploughing scene in Suffolk' (see note on No. 122); also 'Landscape: the ferry', probably the painting 'Mill Stream' now in the Ipswich Museum. He visited the Revd. Mr. Driffield at Feering in June (see Nos. 124-128) and spent much of the rest of the year in Suffolk.

[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 90]
Subjects depicted
Horses (Animals)
Carts
Dog (Animal)
Bibliographic references
  • 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. 90, 105
  • p. 155 Ian Collins, ed. Masterpieces. Art and East Anglia Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 2013. ISBN: 9780946009626.
  • Feaver, William, Lucian Freud on John Constable, London, British Council, 2003
Other number
135, plate 99. - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
332-1888

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Record createdJuly 14, 2006
Record URL
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