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Hellvellyn

Watercolour
21 September 1806 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Image of Helvellyn, a mountain in the English Lake District.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleHellvellyn (popular title)
Materials and techniques
watercolour and pencil on paper
Brief description
Watercolour, 'Hellvellyn', John Constable, Great Britain, 1806
Physical description
Image of Helvellyn, a mountain in the English Lake District.
Dimensions
  • Height: 15.9cm
  • Width: 36.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
Hellvel [deleted] Helvellin 21st Sepr. 1806 - rain [deleted] evening - stormy with slight rain. (Inscribed on the back in pencil by the artist, with deletions as shown.)
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
Place depicted
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. 56-58.
Other number
73, plate 40. - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Accession number
348-1888

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Record createdJuly 26, 2006
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