East Bergholt Street, East Bergholt
Drawing
ca. 1796-9 (drawn)
ca. 1796-9 (drawn)
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A pen and watercolour drawing, in wash (pale green, blue and yellow). A large cottage on the left and a road bending round. Three smaller cottages bordered with fences are in the background.
Object details
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| Title | East Bergholt Street, East Bergholt (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | pen and watercolour |
| Brief description | John Constable. East Bergholt Street, East Bergholt. 1796-9. |
| Physical description | A pen and watercolour drawing, in wash (pale green, blue and yellow). A large cottage on the left and a road bending round. Three smaller cottages bordered with fences are in the background. |
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| Historical context | John Constable was born in East Bergholt, Suffolk, on 11 June 1776, the second son of Golding Constable, a well-to-do mill-owner, and Ann Watts. His fondness for painting, without any marked precocity, had already declared itself by the time he was 16 or 17: and he was encouraged in this taste by his friendship with John Dunthorne, a plumber and glazier of East Bergholt, who was an amateur painter. [Reynolds, 1973, p. 33] |
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| Bibliographic reference | G. Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum: Catalogue of the Constable Collection, 1973, pp. 36-37 |
| Other number | 14 - Reynolds catalogue no. |
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| Accession number | 625-1888 |
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| Record created | May 8, 2009 |
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