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Landscape with houses and a windmill

Maker

(artist)
1776-1837

Title

Landscape with houses and a windmill

Date of Production

1808 - 1809

Medium

graphite on laid paper, laid down on a mount with a gold ink border

Dimensions

Height: 9.6 cm
Width: 15.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.232

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Provenance

Sir John Charles Robinson, London (1824-1913); his sale, Christie's (London), 21 April 1902, lot 15; purchased there by Reynolds; Sotheby's (London), 23 February 1926; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£3.25); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Reynolds, Graham, The early paintings and drawings of John Constable, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996
no. 09.52. on p. 137
Illus. pl. 783

Constable, a Master Draughtsman, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 1994
pp. 52-53
Illus. no. II

Fleming-Williams, Ian, Constable and his drawings, London: Philip Wilson, 1990
p. 35, note 17 ...More

Rhyne, Charles S, 'Constable Drawings and Watercolours in the Collections of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon and the Yale Center for British Art: Part I. Authentic Works', Master Drawings, Summer 1981
p. 126 under no. 2, p. 140 note 3
see PDF

Fleming-Williams, Ian, Constable: landscape watercolours & drawings, London: Tate Gallery Publications, 1976
pp. 6, 16
Illus. no. 5

Day, Harold, John Constable RA, 1776-1837: drawings, the golden age, Eastbourne: Eastbourne Fine Art, 1975
Illus. pl. 211

Beckett, R.B., ed., John Constable's Correspondence, Ipswich: Suffolk Records Society, 1962-68
vol. II, pp. 14-15

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 10

Key, Sidney J., John Constable: his life and works, London: Phoenix House 1948
p. 14
Illus. p. 15 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: Mount (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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