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Cloud study (after Alexander Cozens' 'Engravings of Skies')

Maker

(artist)
1776-1837

After
(artist)
1717-1786

Title

Cloud study (after Alexander Cozens' 'Engravings of Skies')

Date of Production

(circa) 1822 - 1823

Medium

graphite covered in fixative on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 9.4 cm
Width: 11.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1932.LF.37

Mode of Acquisition

Arthur Hamilton Lee, gift, 12/12/1932
Arthur Hamilton Lee, bequest, 1947

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords


Provenance

Viscount Lee of Fareham (1868-1947); Fareham Gift 1932

Exhibition History

John Constable: The making of a master, Victoria and Albert Museum, 20/09/2014-11/01/2015

Wolken Welt des Flüchtigen, Leopold Museum, Vienna, 22/03/2013-01/07/2013

Cloud Images, Altenationalgalerie & Berlin & Germany, 24/09/2004-30/01/2005 ...More

Cloud Images, Jenisch Haus, Hamburg, 06/06/2004-12/09/2004

Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism, New York Public Library, and toured around USA, 1987-88

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/05/1977-01/06/1977

Constable: paintings, watercolours and drawings, Tate Gallery, London, 18/02/1976-25/04/1976

'The Cloud Watchers': an exhibition of Instruments, Publications, Paintings and Watercolours concerning Art and Meteorology c. 1770 - 1830, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, 01/06/1975-27/07/1975

English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/01/1965-01/05/1965 ...Less

Literature

Wolken: Welt des Flüchtigen, Leopold Museum, Vienna, 2013
341
Ill. p. 103

Constable: Impressions of land, sea and sky, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2006
p. 38

Wolkenbilder. Die entdeckung des Himmels, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg; Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin; Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, 2004-05 Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2004
no. 203, pp. 166-67
Ill. p. 168 ...More

Thornes, John E., John Constable's Skies, Birmingham: Birmingham University Press, 1999
p. 80

Fleming-Williams, Ian, Constable and his drawings, London: Philip Wilson, 1990
p. 289

William Wordsworth and the age of English Romanticism, New York Public Library, 1987
pp. 106-7; no. 160, p. 219
Ill. no 96, p. 108

Reynolds, Graham, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, New Haven: Yale University Press 1984
no. 23.63, p. 129
Ill. pl. 449

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1977
cat. no. 41

Constable: paintings, watercolours & drawings, Tate Gallery, 18 February - 25 April 1976 London: Tate Gallery 1976
no. 210

William Turner und die Landschaft seiner Zeit, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1976
Ill. no. 146

'The Cloud Watchers': an exhibition of Instruments, Publications, Paintings and Watercolours concerning Art and Meteorology c. 1770 - 1830, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, 1975
cat. no. 35

English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965
cat. no. 31 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, brown ink, artist's hand: "9. The same as the last. but darker / at the top than the bottom.".

Collector's mark: none.

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