Osmington Bay, Dorset

This drawing, unrecorded in the recent literature, was used as the basis for the oil painting executed for the Paris dealer John Arrowsmith in 1824 and now in a private collection; two further pictures of the view are in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, and the John G. Johnson Collection, Philadelphia (G. Reynolds, The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, New Haven and London, 1984, pp. 135-6, nos. 24.5-7, pls. 478-80). The subject is also, incorrectly, known as Weymouth Bay.
Other drawings of Osmington Bay are in the Ipswich Museums and Galleries Collection (G. Reynolds, The Early Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, New Haven and London, 1996, p. 224, no. 16.50, pl. 1313), and the Victoria & Albert Museum (G. Reynolds, Early Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, New Haven and London, 1996, p. 225, no. 16.54, pl. 1315, and p. 226, no. 16.61, pl. 1321); these all show a different part of the beach with a bluff on the left.