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He employed the medium of wash frequently in his later years, using it to produce expressionistic sketches that verged on abstraction.  These were never intended for the public eye, and would have been considered unacceptable for exhibition by the standards of the day.","physicalDescription":"A wash drawing depicting a house, cotage and trees by moonlight, under what appears to be a sky filled with rapidly moving clouds.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Constable, John (RA)","id":"A8267"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"Wash","id":"AAT11051"},{"text":"sepia","id":"AAT15025"},{"text":"paper (fiber product)","id":"AAT14109"}],"techniques":[{"text":"wash","id":"AAT182748"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Sepia and grey wash","categories":[{"text":"Drawings","id":"THES48966"},{"text":"English","id":"THES275052"},{"text":"Landscapes","id":"THES250800"}],"styles":[{"text":"British School","id":"x30967"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006AW7515","2018KP4184","2023NP5547"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLH","id":"THES49654"},"free":"","case":"WD","shelf":"20","box":"C"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"drawing","id":"AAT33973"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Great Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1830-ca. 1836","earliest":"1825-01-01","latest":"1840-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Isabel Constable, daughter of the artist","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"187","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"228","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Although the drawing is dated c. 1830 in the <i>Inventory of Art Objects 1888</i>, Renolds dates it to apporximately 1836 due to its resemblance to the last phase of Constable's draughtsmanship.","historicalContext":"‘In 1836 Constable's two exhibits at the Royal Academy were the 'Cenotaph to the memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds' (now in the Tate Gallery, No. 1272) and the watercolour 'Stonehenge' (No. 395 [1629-1888]). He gave four lectures on 'The History of Landscape Painting' at the Royal Institution in May and June of this year and his last lecture, at Hampstead, on 25 July. Constable died on 31 March 1837. His almost completed painting 'Arundel Mill and Castle' (now in the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio; see No. 379 [260-1888]) was exhibited posthumously at the Royal Academy.’ \r\n                                 \t\r\n[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 233]\r\n\r\nThe loose, expressionistic brushwork and tendency toward abstraction is typical of Constable's late sketches (see also 250-1888).","briefDescription":"Draiwing, A house, cottage and trees by moonlight, by John Constable, sepia wash drawing, ca.1830-36","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<i>Catalogue of the Constable Collection</i>, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 233, 241"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"house","id":"AAT5433"},{"text":"cottages","id":"AAT5500"},{"text":"trees","id":"AAT132410"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["248-1888"],"accessionNumberNum":"248","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1888,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Reynolds catalogue no.","id":"THES50402"},"number":"412, plate 307"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-16","recordCreationDate":"2005-10-20","availableToBook":false}}