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Gate Crag, Borrowdale.

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

A rocky landscape in pencil and watercolour.


Object details

Categories
Watercolours
Landscapes
Object type
Watercolour
TitleGate Crag, Borrowdale. (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour and pencil
Pencil
Watercolour (Paint)
Watercolour Painting (Technique)
Brief description
Watercolour by John Constable, Gate Crag, Borrowdale, 1806, Reynolds cat. no. 87.
Physical description
A rocky landscape in pencil and watercolour.
Dimensions
  • Height: 44.5cm
  • Width: 34.3cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'E & P 1801' (Watermark on paper.)
  • 'Cumberland' (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
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, 62, 64, 65
Other number
87, plate 50. - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
596-1888

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Record createdJuly 26, 2006
Record URL
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