A Cottage, possibly near Salisbury

Details

John Constable, R.A. (1776-1837)
A Cottage, possibly near Salisbury
pencil
9¼ x 13¼ in. (23.5 x 33.6 cm.)

Provenance

Randall Davies; Sotheby's London, 11 February 1947, lot 187.
Norman Baker.
R.B. Beckett; Sotheby's London, 26 March 1975, lot 218 (£400).

Literature

S. Whittingham, Constable and Turner at Salisbury, 2nd revised edn., Salisbury, 1973, p. 52, no. 17.
H. Day, John Constable Drawings, Eastbourne, 1975, p. 83, pl. 85.
G. Reynolds, The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, New Haven and London, 1984, p. 210, no. 29.47, pl. 747.

Lot Essay

The drawing is on a sheet from the larger sketchbook with Whatman paper, watermarked 1822, used mainly in and around Salisbury in 1829. However, in character the drawing is perhaps closer to later drawings executed in Sussex in 1834 and 1835, when Constable drew a particularly large number of views of cottages and barns, e.g. Reynolds nos. 34.10, 34.14, 34.21, 34.23, 34.44, 34.54, 34.56, 34.59-62, 34.67, 35.15, 35.19 pp. 7 and 9, 35.23 and 35.29.

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