Artwork overview
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Medium
brown, gray, and green watercolor over graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 15.5 × 24 cm (6 1/8 × 9 7/16 in.)
mount: 21.3 × 30 cm (8 3/8 × 11 13/16 in.) -
Accession
2022.40.5
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Sir Michael Sadler, Oxford [1861-1943]. (sale, Sotheby's London, 14 July 1994, no. 101). Donald Stone, New York [1942 - 2020]; bequest to NGA, 2022.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1929
Unknown Exhibition, Institute of Art Resaearch, Tokyo, 1929
1958
Exhibition of Early English Watercolours, Leeds City Art Gallery, 1958, no. 9.
1976
John Constable, Tate Gallery, London, 1976, no. 68.
2023
Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.
Bibliography
1990
Fleming-Williams, Ian. Constable and His Drawings. London, 1990: fig. 73.
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite: Epsom. Aug.st 6th 1806.; on verso: sketch of a woman's head and bells; lower left in graphite, later reinforced: This is done with my 3 Colours & Bistre / Epsom Commons 6. August 1806