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Dedham from Langham

Oil
ca. 1830 (made)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (artist)
Place of origin
England (made)

Oil sketch of a country landscape.

Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Oil
TitleDedham from Langham (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on canvas
Oil Paint
Canvas
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil sketch of a county landscape by Constable, England, 19th century.
Physical description
Oil sketch of a country landscape.
Dimensions
  • Approx. height: 21.6cm
  • Approx. width: 30.5cm
  • Frame height: 503mm
  • Frame width: 548mm
  • Frame depth: 40mm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973
Style
British School
Marks and inscriptions
  • John Constable R.A. Summer Morning engraved with alterations for the "English landscape". (A paper label on the stretcher in inscribed in ink. Not in the artist's hand.)
  • Summer Morning - Engraved. (Inscribed on the stretcher itself in ink. Not in the artist's hand.)
Credit line
Given by Isabel Constable
Object history
Given by Isabel Constable, 1888
Historical context
'In 1830 Constable was a member of the Hanging Committee of the Royal Academy (see the note to No. 321 [FA 38] above). He exhibited views of Helmingham Park and Hampstead Heath and another landscape at the Royal Academy. The first number of English Landscape Scenery was published in June or July.'

[G Reynolds, 1973, p.198]
Subject depicted
Landscape
Place depicted
Dedham
Bibliographic references
  • Parris, Leslie and Fleming-Williams, Ian. Constable London : The Tate Gallery, 1991 17
  • Morris, Edward, ed. Constable's Clouds: Paintings and Cloud Studies by John Constable , Edinburgh : National Galleries of Scotland ; Liverpool : National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, c2000. 176 p. : ill. (some col.). ISBN 1903278058 (paperback), 1903278066 (hardback).
  • Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 198, 201, 202
  • Hoozee, Robert (ed.), British Vision. Observation and Imagination in British Art 1750-1950, Brussels : Mercatorfonds ; Ghent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 2007 156
  • Christine Dixon, Ron Radford and Lucina Ward Turner to Monet. The Triumph of Landscape Painting, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2008
  • Feaver, William, Lucian Freud on John Constable, London, British Council, 2003
Other number
332, plate 241 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
132-1888

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Record createdJune 13, 2006
Record URL
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