Rowing boat moored beneath a bank
Maker
(artist)
1776-1837
1776-1837
Title
Rowing boat moored beneath a bank
Date of Production
c. 1809
Medium
graphite (recto), black chalk offset (verso) on blue-grey laid paper (examined under microscope)
Dimensions
Height: 9 cm
Width: 12.5 cm
Width: 12.5 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3943
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
Notes
Although small and unassuming, this sketch occupies an important place in Constable's oeuvre. He used it in several of his most important finished paintings: for the boat seen in The White Horse (Frick, A520D and sketch in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, 605), in The Hay Wain (National Gallery, London NG1207) and in Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows (Tate T13896).
Provenance
Charles Golding Constable (1821-1879); Beaux Arts Gallery (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
Discover Constable and the Hay Wain, National Gallery, London, 17/10/2024-02/02/2025
John Constable - The Great Landscapes, San Marino & California & USA, 03/02/2007-29/04/2007
John Constable - The Great Landscapes, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 01/10/2006-31/12/2006 ...More
John Constable - The Great Landscapes, Tate Britain, London, 01/06/2006-28/08/2006
Constable: paintings, watercolours and drawings, Tate Gallery, London, 18/02/1976-25/04/1976 ...Less
John Constable - The Great Landscapes, San Marino & California & USA, 03/02/2007-29/04/2007
John Constable - The Great Landscapes, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 01/10/2006-31/12/2006 ...More
John Constable - The Great Landscapes, Tate Britain, London, 01/06/2006-28/08/2006
Constable: paintings, watercolours and drawings, Tate Gallery, London, 18/02/1976-25/04/1976 ...Less
Literature
Kentridge, William, Constable's White Horse, New York, The Frick Collection 2020
p. 51
ill. on p. 51
Reynolds, Graham, The early paintings and drawings of John Constable, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996
no. 09.77 on p. 140 and p. 28
pl. 807
Cormack, Malcolm, Constable, Oxford: Phaidon, 1986
p. 128
pl. 127 ...More
Fleming-Williams, Ian, Constable: landscape watercolours & drawings, London: Tate Gallery Publications, 1976
p. 121
fig. 93
Constable: paintings, watercolours & drawings, Tate Gallery, 18 February - 25 April 1976 London: Tate Gallery 1976
no. 191
ill.
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 13
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.
p. 43
fig.71 on p. 97 ...Less
p. 51
ill. on p. 51
Reynolds, Graham, The early paintings and drawings of John Constable, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996
no. 09.77 on p. 140 and p. 28
pl. 807
Cormack, Malcolm, Constable, Oxford: Phaidon, 1986
p. 128
pl. 127 ...More
Fleming-Williams, Ian, Constable: landscape watercolours & drawings, London: Tate Gallery Publications, 1976
p. 121
fig. 93
Constable: paintings, watercolours & drawings, Tate Gallery, 18 February - 25 April 1976 London: Tate Gallery 1976
no. 191
ill.
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 13
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.
p. 43
fig.71 on p. 97 ...Less
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: none.
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