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A Country Road and Sandbank

Oil Painting
ca. 1830-1836 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Landscape with a country road, a sandbank, and foliage.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleA Country Road and Sandbank (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on paper laid on canvas
Brief description
Oil painting, 'A Country Road and Sandbank', John Constable, ca. 1830-ca. 1836
Physical description
Landscape with a country road, a sandbank, and foliage.
Dimensions
  • Approx. height: 16.5cm
  • Approx. width: 20.3cm
  • Frame height: 45.2cm
  • Frame width: 50.2cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973
Style
Credit line
Given by Isabel Constable
Object history
Given by Isabel Constable, 1888
Historical context
'In 1836 Constable's two exhibits at the Royal Academy were the 'Cenotaph to the memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds' (now in the Tate Gallery, No. 1272) and the watercolour 'Stonehenge' (No. 395 [1629-1888]). He gave four lectures on 'The History of Landscape Painting' at the Royal Institution in May and June of this year and his last lecture, at Hampstead, on 25 July. Constable died on 31 March 1837. His almost completed painting 'Arundel Mill and Castle' (now in the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio; see No. 379 [260-1888]) was exhibited posthumously at the Royal Academy.'

[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 233]
Bibliographic reference
Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 233, 239
Other number
405, plate 303 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Accession number
327-1888

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Record createdMay 14, 2007
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