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Landscape with trees and a distant mansion

Watercolour
ca. 1805 (drawn)
Artist/Maker

Watercolour in autumn shades, showing trees and a mansion in the distance.

Object details

Category
Object type
TitleLandscape with trees and a distant mansion (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil and watercolour
Brief description
John Constable, Landscape with Trees and a Distant Mansion, c.1805, Reynolds cat. no. 55
Physical description
Watercolour in autumn shades, showing trees and a mansion in the distance.
Dimensions
  • Height: 177mm
  • Width: 178mm
Historical context
In 1805 Constable exhibited 'A Landscape: Moonlight' at the Royal Academy. According to an unpublished entry in the Diary, he called on Farington on 1 June to say that he had been engaged to paint an altarpiece for a country church. This picture was probably the altarpiece for Brantham Curch which Leslie assigns to the previous year (Beckett, I, pp. 18-9)

G Reynolds, 1973, p. 52.
Bibliographic reference
Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 52-3.
Other number
55 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Accession number
213-1888

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Record createdJune 12, 2009
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