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Waterloo Bridge from Whitehall Stairs

Oil
ca. 1819 (made)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

Picture of Waterloo birdge from Whitehall stairs with a woodland scene on the other side.

Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Oil
TitleWaterloo Bridge from Whitehall Stairs (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on millboard
Oil Paint
Millboard
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil sketch, 'The opening of Waterloo Bridge, from Whitehall Stairs, June 18th 1817' by Constable.
Physical description
Picture of Waterloo birdge from Whitehall stairs with a woodland scene on the other side.
Dimensions
  • Approx. height: 29.2cm
  • Approx. width: 48.3cm
  • Frame height: 51.8cm
  • Frame width: 72.3cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973
Style
British School
Credit line
Given by Isabel Constable
Object history
Given by Isabel Constable, 1888
Historical context
In 1819 Constable exhibited at the Royal Academy 'A scene on the River Stour' ('The White Horse'), bought by John Fisher, and now in the Frick Collection, New York (see the sketch-book No. 132, pp. 66 and 70). His second child Maria Louisa (Minna) was born on 19 July. He took a house at Hampstead for the first time at the end of the summer. He was elected A.R.A. on 1 November.

[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 121]
Subject depicted
Bridge
Place depicted
Waterloo Bridge
Bibliographic references
  • Parris, Leslie and Fleming-Williams, Ian. Constable London : The Tate Gallery, 1991 no.103
  • Lyles, Anne (Ed.), Constable : The Great Landscapes, London, Tate Publishing, 2006
  • Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 121, 123, 124
Other number
174, 174a, plate 138, 137 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
322-1888

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Record createdJune 13, 2006
Record URL
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