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View in Langdale

Drawing
19 October 1806 (made)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (artist)
Place of origin
Lake District (made)

Mountain landscape in pencil and grey wash.


Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitleView in Langdale (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil and grey wash
Pencil
Grey Wash
Wash Technique
Drawing
Brief description
Drawing of a 'View in Langdale' by John Constable, ink wash, Great Britain, 1806. Reynolds cat. no. 86.
Physical description
Mountain landscape in pencil and grey wash.
Dimensions
  • Height: 34.3cm
  • Width: 48.6cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'E & P 1801' (Watermark on paper.)
  • '19 Oct 1806 Langdale' (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, 186-1888, 194-1888].'

[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
Other number
86, plate 48. - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
1256-1888

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Record createdJuly 26, 2006
Record URL
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