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View in Borrowdale

Watercolour
25 September 1806 (made)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (painter (artist))
Place of origin
Lake District (made)

View in Borrowdale in pencil and watercolour.

Object details

Categories
Images Online
Paintings
Object type
Watercolour
TitleView in Borrowdale (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil and watercolour
Watercolour
Pencil
Brief description
View in Borrowdale by John Constable (British, 1776-1837); pencil and watercolour; Britain; 1806.
Physical description
View in Borrowdale in pencil and watercolour.
Dimensions
  • Height: 24.3cm
  • Width: 34.6cm
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.)
  • '25 Sepr. 1806 - Borrowdale - fine cloudy day tone very mellow like - the mildest of Gaspar Poussin and Sir G B & on the whole deeper toned than this drawing-' (Inscribed on the back in pencil by the artist.)
    Translation
    Sir G B is Sir George Beaumont.
Credit line
Bequeathed by Isabel Constable, daughter of the artist
Object history
'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
Landscapes (Representations)
Mountains
Place depicted
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, 59, 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. 9.
Other number
74, plate 42. - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
192-1888

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Record createdNovember 12, 2002
Record URL
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