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Pen, sepia and grey wash on rough paper\r\n\r\nOn the Verso is a pencil sketch of a wide downland landscape, inscribed below plate 209 illegibly, identified by Mr. R. B. Beckett as the Devil's Dyke, near the 'Shepherd \r\nand Dog' inn; also a slight study of a kneeling figure. \r\nThat the scene on the <i>recto</i> is correctly identified as Brighton is confirmed by a water-colour entitled 'Brighton Beach' by F. L. T. Francia (present whereabouts unknown) which shows the same belfry on the breakwater. \r\nConstable recorded a visit to the Devil's Dyke in a letter to Fisher postmarked 29 [August] 1824 (<u>Beckett,</u> VI, p. 172); the drawing on the<i> verso</i> may have been made on this occasion. In the course of his description he comments: \"Last Tuesday, the [illest day that ever was, we went to the Dyke-which is in fact a Roman remains of an embankment, overlooking-perhaps the most grand & affecting natural landscape in the world-and consequently a scene the most unfit for a picture. It is the business of a painter not to contend with nature & put this scene (a valley filled with imagery 50 miles long) on a canvas of a few inches, but to make something out of nothing, in attempting which he must almost of necessity become poetical.\"","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"John Constable","id":"A8267"},"association":{"text":"drawn by","id":"x30616"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"pen","id":"x30618"},{"text":"sepia","id":"AAT15025"},{"text":"grey wash","id":"x43741"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Pen, sepia and grey wash on rough paper","categories":[{"text":"Drawings","id":"THES48966"},{"text":"Landscapes","id":"THES250800"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006AE7990","2016JH3887","2018KV2616","2018KV2615"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLF","id":"THES49656"},"free":"","case":"TOPIC","shelf":"3","box":"G"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"drawings","id":"AAT33973"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Brighton","id":"x31136"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1824","earliest":"1819-01-01","latest":"1828-12-31"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Isabel Constable, 1888","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"33,3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"42","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Isabel Constable bequest","historicalContext":"In 1824 Constable's sole exhibit at the Royal Academy was 'A Boat passing a Lock' ('The Lock') (now in the collection of Mr. S. Morrison). 'The Hay Wain', the 'View on the Stour near Dedham' and a 'View of Hampstead Heath' were exhibited at the Salon in Paris in this year. He took his wife and family to Brighton for the first time in May, and himself spent some time in London and some with them in Brighton, returning before them at the end of August.","briefDescription":"John Constable, Coast Scene, Brighton, c.1824, Reynolds cat. no. 279, On the back is a pencil drawing, possibly the Devil's Dyke","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<i>Catalogue of the Constable Collection</i>, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, cat. no. 279, p. 173-175 ill. plate 212 , 209"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Shân Lancaster, ed. <i>Constable and Brighton: something out of nothing</i>. London : Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd, 2017. 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