{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O126458"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O126458/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006BH5430/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006BH5430/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2006BH5430","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2006BH9513","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2018KV2621","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2018KV2615","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2018KV2613","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O126458/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O126458","accessionNumber":"194-1888","objectType":"Drawing","titles":[{"title":"Leathes Water (Thirlmere)","type":"popular title"}],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"Landscape without foliage in pencil and grey wash.  On the back is a slight pencil sketch of mountain scenery.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Constable, John (RA)","id":"A8267"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"watercolor","id":"AAT15045"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Pencil and grey wash","categories":[{"text":"Drawings","id":"THES48966"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006BH5430","2006BH9513","2018KV2621","2018KV2615","2018KV2613"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLH","id":"THES49654"},"free":"","case":"WD","shelf":"62","box":"D"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"drawing","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"No","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Lake District","id":"x35878"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1806","earliest":"1806-01-01","latest":"1806-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Isabel Constable, daughter of the artist","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"13","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"38.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from <i>Catalogue of the Constable Collection</i>, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"'Constable's only exhibit at the Royal Academy in 1806 was No. 65 [169-1888]. In June he was at East Bergholt, as is attested by Nos. 66 and 67 [224-1888 and 346-1888]. In the autumn he paid a visit of some two months to the Lake District and made many drawings, among them Nos. 72-94 [794-1888, 348-1888, 192-1888, 812-1888, 170-1888, 185-1888, 188-1888, 184-1888, 187-1888, 178-1888, 179-1888, 177-1888, 193-1888, 183-1888, 1256-1888, 596-1888, 181-1888, 182-1888, 1257-1888, 811-1888, 349-1888, 186-1888, 194-1888].'\r\n\r\n[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 56]","briefDescription":"Drawing, 'Leathes Water (Thirlmere)' by Constable.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Hebron, Stephen, Shields, Conal and Wilcox, Timothy, <i>The solitude of mountains: Constable and the Lake District</i>, Grasmere, Wordsworth Trust, 2006","id":"AUTH356929"},"details":"","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<i>Catalogue of the Constable Collection</i>, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 56, 64, 65"},{"reference":{"text":"Concannon, Amy (editor) Tate Gallery (host institution) <u>Turner and Constable : Rivals and Originals</u> London : Tate Publishing, 2025","id":"AUTH413599"},"details":"p. 81","free":"In May 1815, nine years after his tour of the Lake District, Constable published a print after this drawing. An imminent publication of prints after work by his early mentor Joseph Farrington may have inspired Constable to present his own take on the Lakes scenery. Compared to the more picturesque scenes of his contemporaries, Constable's <i>Leatheswater </i>shows the Lake District in a more barren guise. With its precise lines and carefully-applied wash, this is likely to have been the drawing worked up to give to the printmaker, Henry Dawe (1790-1848), rather than one made on the spot. Constable had met Henry when helping paint the background of a portrait for his brother, potraitist George Dawe (1781-1829). Mezzotint was Henry Dawe's specialism and the technique Constable would elect fifteen years later for his project <i>English Landscape</i>."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[{"text":"Lake District","id":"x35878"}],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"mountains","id":"AAT8795"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["194-1888"],"accessionNumberNum":"194","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1888,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Reynolds catalogue no.","id":"THES50402"},"number":"94, plate 54."}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-08-04","recordCreationDate":"2006-07-26","availableToBook":false}}