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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.686
People
John Constable, British (E. Bergholt, England 1776 - 1837 London, England)
Title
The Gardens at Stourhead
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Landscape, Stourhead (The Gardens of Sir Richard Colt Hoare at Stourhead)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
Oct. 2, 1811
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297556

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
86 x 14.9 cm (33 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: Stourhead, Oct. 2 1811
  • watermark: Britannia [partial]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.686
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Sir Charles (C. J.) Holmes, Constable and His Influence on Landscape Painting, A. Constable (Westminster, 1902), p. 238
  • Hon. Andrew Shirley, ed., Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, R.A., by C. R. Leslie, R.A., The Medici Society (London, England, 1937), pl. 35
  • Graham Reynolds, The Early Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1996), cat. no. 11.20, pl. 905
  • Timothy Wilcox, Constable and Salisbury: The Soul of Landscape, exh. cat., Scala Publishers Ltd. (London, 2011), p. 22, repr. p. 21 as fig. 12
  • Dudley Dodd, Stourhead: Henry Hoare's Paradise Revisited, Bloomsbury (2021), pp.98 n. 170

Exhibition History

  • Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2006 - 10/22/2006

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