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Noon. Wind fresh at West ... [3 or 4 words are erased here] Sun very Hot. looking southward exceedingly bright vivid & Glowing, very heavy showers in the Afternoon but a fine evening. High wind in the night.'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Inscribed on the back by the artist"},{"content":"'Sepr. 10 1821 Eleven o'clock Sultry with a warm gentle rain falling large heavy clouds... 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His third child, Charles Golding Constable, was born on 29 March.  He accompanied Archdeacon John Fisher on his visitation of Berkshire in June, took No. 2 Lower Terrace, Hampstead, for his family during the summer and autumn and paid a visit to Fisher at Salisbury in November.\r\n\r\n [G Reynolds, 1973, p. 135]","briefDescription":"Oil sketch, 'Study of sky and trees, with a red house, at Hampstead' by Constable.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<i>Catalogue of the Constable Collection</i>, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 135, 141, 146, 147"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[{"text":"Hampstead","id":"x34208"}],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"trees","id":"AAT132410"},{"text":"clouds","id":"x30091"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"<b>Looking at the big sky </b>\n\r\nJohn Constable made this painting outside on a scorching hot day. \n\r\nThe leafy, green garden looks like a perfect spot for playing or picnicking – but who might live in the house? \n\n<b><i>Study of sky and trees, with a red house, at Hampstead</i> painting </b>\r\nBy John Constable \r\n1821 \r\nLondon \r\nGiven by Isabel Constable \r\nMuseum no. 156-1888 \n\n[Young V&amp;A, Imagine Gallery, Adventure, short object label]","date":{"text":"01/07/2023","earliest":"2023-07-01","latest":"2023-07-01"}}],"partNumbers":["156-1888"],"accessionNumberNum":"156","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1888,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"","id":""},"number":"222, plate 167"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-03-02","recordCreationDate":"2006-07-20","availableToBook":false}}