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Cloud study (after Alexander Cozens' 'Engravings of Skies')
Maker
1776-1837
After
(artist)
1717-1786
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Date of Production
Medium
Dimensions
Width: 11.4 cm
Accession Number
Mode of Acquisition
Arthur Hamilton Lee, bequest, 1947
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Copyright
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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 ...More
Cloud Images, Altenationalgalerie & Berlin & Germany, 24/09/2004-30/01/2005
Cloud Images, Jenisch Haus, Hamburg, 06/06/2004-12/09/2004
The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/09/1986-30/11/1986; The Drawing Center, New York, 08/04/1986-26/07/1986
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. 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
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
The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 75
Ill. p. 175
Reynolds, Graham, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, New Haven: Yale University Press 1984
no. 23.72, p. 129
Ill. pl. 458
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
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. 81 on p. 105 ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, brown ink, artist's hand: "18_ All cloudy except a narrow opening at / the bottom of the Sky . with others smaller / the clouds darker than the plain part + / darker at the top than the bottom / The Tint twice over".
Collector's mark: none.
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