CONSTABLE : impressions of land, sea and sky | John CONSTABLE

John CONSTABLE | Landscape with passing storm clouds

ENLARGE

CONSTABLE, John

Great Britain 1776 – 1837

Landscape with passing storm clouds 1829

pencil and grey wash

wove sketchbook paper on cardboard

"Whatman"

REYNOLDS. The Later Paintings & Drawings of John Constable.

sheet 23.4 (h) x 33.6 (w) cm

not signed;
not dated.

Gift of Harold Day 1990

NGA 1989.1363

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This sheet comes from a sketchbook that Constable used in 1829. Day has suggested that the lightly sketched in figures may be playing rounders (Harold Day, John Constable RA 1776–1837: Drawings, Eastbourne: Eastbourne Fine Art, 1975, p. 81).