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View in Borrowdale

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

View of a bridge and a man with a horse and cart in pencil and watercolour.


Object details

Categories
Watercolours
Landscapes
Object type
watercolour (painting)
TitleView in Borrowdale (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil and watercolour
Pencil
Watercolour (Paint)
Watercolour Painting
Drawing (Image-Making)
Brief description
Watercolour, View in Borrowdale, by John Constable, 1806
Physical description
View of a bridge and a man with a horse and cart in pencil and watercolour.
Dimensions
  • Height: 18.1cm
  • Width: 38.1cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Borrowdale 13th Oct 1806 - afternoon' (Inscribed below on left in pencil by the artist.)
  • 'Borrowdale - 1806 afternoon' (Inscribed in pencil on the back.)
  • 'Rostwaite Cum.' (Inscribed in pencil on the back beside a few pencil outlines of hills.)
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]
Subjects depicted
Mountains
Bridges (Built Works)
Horse
Places depicted
Lake District
Borrowdale
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
Other number
84, plate 47. - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
193-1888

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Record createdJuly 26, 2006
Record URL
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