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A lady seated

Watercolour
ca. 1805 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Pencil and watercolour drawing entitled 'A lady seated'.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleA lady seated (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil and watercolour
Brief description
Watercolour, 'A lady seated', by John Constable, pencil and watercolour, c.1805
Physical description
Pencil and watercolour drawing entitled 'A lady seated'.
Dimensions
  • Height: 106mm
  • Width: 121mm
Marks and inscriptions
'11 4' or 'Mrs' (Inscribed on the back in pencil with an illegible scribble)
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 According to an unpublished entry in the Diary, he called on Farington on 1 June to say that he had been engaged to paint an altarpiece for a country church.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.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 52-56.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1942, London: HMSO, 1955.
Other number
64 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Accession number
P.44-1942

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Record createdJune 15, 2009
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