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

Landscape with mountains in pencil and watercolour. On the back is a pencil sketch of a seated female figure; also a watercolour sketch of a mountain valley.

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Category	Watercolours
Object type	watercolour (painting)
Title	View in Borrowdale (popular title)
Materials and techniques	Pencil and watercolour Pencil Watercolour (Paint) Drawing (Image-Making) Watercolour Painting
Brief description	Watercolour, View in Borrowdale, by John Constable, 1806
Physical description	Landscape with mountains in pencil and watercolour. On the back is a pencil sketch of a seated female figure; also a watercolour sketch of a mountain valley.
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	'E & P 1802' (Watermark on paper.)
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	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	89, plate 49. - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	182-1888

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Record created	July 21, 2006
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O126284/view-in-borrowdale-watercolour-painting-constable-john-ra/

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