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Borrowdale, looking toward Glaramara

Drawing
1806 (made)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (artist)
Place of origin
Borrowdale (made)

Landscape with trees in the foreground in pencil and grey wash.

Object details

Categories
Drawings
Landscapes
Object type
Drawing
TitleBorrowdale, looking toward Glaramara (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil and grey wash
Pencil
Paper (Fiber Product)
Ink
Drawing (Image-Making)
Wash Technique
Brief description
Drawing of Borrowdale, looking towards Glaramara, by John Constable, 1806, Great Britain. Reynolds cat. no. 90
Physical description
Landscape with trees in the foreground in pencil and grey wash.
Dimensions
  • Height: 34.6cm
  • Width: 48.6cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973
Marks and inscriptions
J. Constable (Inscribed in pencil on the back, but not in the artist's hand.)
Credit line
Given by Isabel Constable, daughter of the artist
Historical context
'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, 186-1888, 194-1888].'

[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 56]
Subject depicted
Mountains
Places depicted
Lake District
Borrowdale
Bibliographic references
  • Parris, Leslie and Fleming-Williams, Ian. Constable London : The Tate Gallery, 1991 235
  • 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, 63-65
Other number
90, plate 49 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
1257-1888

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Record createdJuly 7, 2006
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