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Netley Abbey: the interior

Drawing
1816, October (made)
Artist/Maker
Constable (artist)
Place of origin
Britain (made)

View of the interior (perhaps courtyard) of Netley Abbey with trees, shrubbery in pencil and sepia wash on paper.

Object details

Categories
Drawings
Landscapes
Architecture
Object type
drawing
TitleNetley Abbey: the interior (popular title)
Materials and techniques
pencil and sepia wash on paper
Pencil
Sepia
Paper
Drawing
Brief description
Drawing, Netley Abbey: the interior, by John Constable,, pencil and sepia wash, 1816
Physical description
View of the interior (perhaps courtyard) of Netley Abbey with trees, shrubbery in pencil and sepia wash on paper.
Dimensions
  • Height: 18cm
  • Width: 11.6cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • J WHATMAN 1813

    Note
    watermark on the page on which the drawing is mounted

  • Netley Abbey.

    Note
    Inscribed on the larger page by the artist

  • Netley

    Note
    repeated on the right in another hand.

Credit line
Given by Isabel Constable
Historical context
In 1816 Constable exhibited 'The Wheatfield' and 'A Wood: Autumn' at the Royal Academy. His father died on 14 May. He spent some of the summer in Suffolk and paid two visits to Wivenhoe. He was married by his friend John Fisher to Miss Bicknell on 2 October at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, and they spent part of the honeymoon staying with Fisher at his vicarage at Osmington, Dorsetshire.

[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 110]
Bibliographic reference
Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 110-112, 114
Other number
149, plate 122 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
606-1888

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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