Stonehenge

John Constable1835 (painted) - 1835

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Title: Stonehenge
Creator Lifespan: 1776 - 1837
Date Created: 1835 (painted) - 1835
Type: Watercolour
Rights: Bequeathed by Isabel Constable, daughter of the artist
External Link: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O74470
painted: Salisbury, Wiltshire
artist: John Constable
Subjects Depicted: stonehenge; Salisbury; romanticism; landscape
Place Part Of: Wiltshire
More Information: Constable painted this watercolour at a sad time in his life. Both his wife, Maria, and his closest friend, John Fisher, had died, and his two eldest sons had left home. He is perhaps expressing his personal unhappiness in the watercolour, for the image is certainly a melancholy one. The painting was exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition of 1836. Some of the lines that accompanied this painting in the catalogue describe 'The mysterious monument of Stonehenge, standing remote on a bare and boundless heath...'. Constable himself probably wrote them.
Materials and Techniques: Watercolour
Dimensions: Height: 38.7 cm, Width: 59.7 cm, Height: 575 mm Oak frame, Width: 783 mm Oak frame, Depth: 21 mm Oak frame

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