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View in the Lake District

Watercolour
1806 (made)
Artist/Maker
Constable, John (RA) (artist)
Place of origin
Lake District (made)

View of a lake and mountains in pencil and watercolour. On the back is a pencil and watercolour sketch of a country girl in a shawl.


Object details

Categories
Watercolours
Landscapes
Object type
watercolour
TitleView in the Lake District (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil and watercolour
Watercolour
Pencil
Paper
Watercolour
Brief description
Watercolour, View in the Lake District, by John Constable, 1806
Physical description
View of a lake and mountains in pencil and watercolour. On the back is a pencil and watercolour sketch of a country girl in a shawl.
Dimensions
  • Height: 17.1cm
  • Width: 24.4cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973
Marks and inscriptions
J. Constable RA. (Inscribed on the back in pencil, 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
Place depicted
Lake District
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
92, plate 53. - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
349-1888

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Record createdJuly 26, 2006
Record URL
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