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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.42

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

Discover Constable and the Hay Wain, National Gallery, London, 17/10/2024-02/02/2025

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 ...More

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

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

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

Constable: the art of nature, Tate Gallery, London, 04/06/1971-19/07/1971 ...Less

Literature

Wolken: Welt des Flüchtigen, Leopold Museum, Vienna, 2013
p. 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. 168 ...More

Thornes, John E., John Constable's Skies, Birmingham: Birmingham University Press, 1999
p. 80
Ill. p. 79, pl. 12

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

The Northern Landscape. Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, The Drawing Center, New York; Courtauld Institute Galleries, 1986
no. 75
Ill. p. 175

Reynolds, Graham, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, New Haven: Yale University Press 1984
no. 23.68, p. 129
Ill. pl. 454

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
Ill. p. 128

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

Constable: the art of nature, Tate Gallery, London, 1971
cat. no. 60

Riding, Christine, Mary McMahon, Jenny Gaschke, Anne Lyles, Emma Roodhouse, and National Gallery (Great Britain), Discover Constable and the Hay Wain, London: National Gallery, 2024.
fig 77 on p. 103 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: left and centre, fragment: "[...]OMAS / [...]22" (the continuation of the watermark on D.1932.LF.41 which begins "W. TH[...] / 18[...]").

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, pen and brown ink, artist's hand: "14. All cloudy. except one large opening with / others smaller _ the lights of the Clouds / lighter _ and the shades darker than the plain / part. and darker at the top than the bottom. / The Tint once over the openings + twice in the Clouds".

Collector's mark: none.

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