Cloud Study, Early Morning, Looking East from Hampstead
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on paper on board
Dimensions:
5 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches (14.6 x 32.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in brown ink, "1/2 p 5 AM 19 July | looking East. | The day beautiful at noon plain blue sky."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.117
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
science | meteorology | white (color) | orange | pink (color) | blue | fields (agricultural land) | study (visual work) | landscape | clouds
Associated Places:
Greater London | Hampstead | England | United Kingdom | Fleet
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)John Constable - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1969-04-30 - 1969-11-01)Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 58-59, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Patricia Crown, British comic art, 1730-1830, from the Yale Center for British Art, Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, 1988, NC1477 G63 C76 (YCBA)Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, p. 171-172, no. IV.24, pl. 146, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)Robert Hoozee, L'opera completa di Constable, 98, Rizzoli, Milano, Italy, 1979, p. 139, no. 526, NJ18 C74 A12 +H66 (YCBA)John Constable : a selection of paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, , National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1969, pp. 40-41, no. 37, NJ18 C74 U5 (YCBA)Charles Robert Leslie, Memoirs of the life of John Constable, R.A., The Medici Society, Ltd., London, UK, 1937, p. 117-118, NJ18 C74 L47 1937 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 81(v.1),, no. 110, pl. 35 (v.2), ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 24 (v.1), no. 76, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1984, p. 78 (v.1), no. 21.39, pl. 245, NJ18 C74 R485 + (YCBA)John E. Thornes, John Constable's skies : a fusion of art and science, , University of Birmingham Press, Birmingham, UK, 1999, pp. 216-17, no. 7, pl. 92, NJ18 C74 T56 1999 (YCBA)Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 12 (v.1), no. 39, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)