A comparable drawing inscribed 'A Rural Cot' and dated 179(8) is at Yale, reproduced Charles S. Rhyne, Constable Drawings and Watercolours in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon at the Yale Center for British Art, part 1, Authentic Work, Master Drawings, vol. XIX, no. 2 (Summer 1981), pl. 1

Drawn at the time when the artist was developing his style independently from J.T. Smith, the year before he went to London and began his studies at the Royal Academy Schools