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Cloud study (after Alexander Cozens' 'Engravings of Skies')
Maker
1776-1837
After
(artist)
1717-1786
Title
Date of Production
Medium
Dimensions
Width: 11.5 cm
Accession Number
Mode of Acquisition
Arthur Hamilton Lee, bequest, 1947
Credit
Copyright
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Provenance
Exhibition History
John Constable: The making of a master, Victoria and Albert Museum, 20/09/2014-11/01/2015 ...More
Wolken Welt des Flüchtigen, Leopold Museum, Vienna, 22/03/2013-01/07/2013
Cloud Images, Altenationalgalerie & Berlin & Germany, 24/09/2004-30/01/2005
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 ...Less
Literature
p. 341
Ill. p. 102
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. 23.66, p. 129
Ill. pl. 452
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 ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, brown ink, artist's hand: "12. All cloudy. except one large opening. with / others smaller. the cloud lighter than the / plain part - and darker at the top than / the bottom. / The tint twice in the openings. and once in ye clouds".
Collector's mark: Could also be a papermark? Verso: lower left corner, blindstamped, a horizontal shield with floral garlands surrounding word: "BATH" (not in Lugt).
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