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View in Borrowdale.

Watercolour
13 October 1806 (made)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (artist)
Place of origin
Borrowdale (made)

Foggy view of mountains in Borrowdale in pencil and watercolour.


Object details

Categories
Watercolours
Landscapes
Object type
Watercolour
TitleView in Borrowdale. (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil and watercolour
Pencil
Watercolour
Watercolour
Brief description
Watercolour by John Constable, 'View in Borrowdale' 1806.
Physical description
Foggy view of mountains in Borrowdale in pencil and watercolour.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13.3cm
  • Width: 37.8cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Borrowdale 13 Oct- 1806. Evng-' (Inscribed on the back in pencil by the artist.)
  • 'J. Constable.' (Inscribed in another hand.)
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
Mountains
Place depicted
Lake District
Bibliographic references
  • 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, 62, 64, 65
  • Evans, M., with N. Costaras and C. Richardson, John Constable. Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: V&A, 2011, p. 42, cat. no. 10.
Other number
85, plate 48. - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
183-1888

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Record createdJuly 21, 2006
Record URL
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