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View in Borrowdale

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

View in Borrowdale of mountains and a tree to the right in pencil and watercolour.

Object details

Category
Watercolours
Object type
Watercolour
TitleView in Borrowdale (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil and watercolour
Pencil
Watercolour
Brief description
Watercolour, 'View in Borrowdale' by Constable.
Physical description
View in Borrowdale of mountains and a tree to the right in pencil and watercolour.
Dimensions
  • Height: 19.1cm
  • Width: 27.3cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Borrowdale 4 Oct 1806 - Dark Autumnal day at noon - tone more blooming that ['that' scored out] this ... the effect exceeding terrific ['terrific' scored out] terrific - and much like the beautiful Gaspar I saw in Margaret St.' (Inscribed in pencil by the artist)
  • 'J. Constable RA.' (Inscribed in another 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].'

[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 56]
Subject depicted
Mountains
Places depicted
Lake District
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, 60, 61, 64, 65
  • Feaver, William, Lucian Freud on John Constable, London, British Council, 2003
Other number
80, plate 43 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
187-1888

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Record createdJuly 19, 2006
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