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The three works were bought in for the family by C. R. Leslie for £5 5s."}],"objectHistory":"Given by Isabel Constable, 1888","historicalContext":"In 1812 Constable's exhibits at the Royal Academy were 'Salisbury: Morning', 'A Watermill' (Flatford Mill) (see No. 103 [135-1888]) and two small landscapes.  Apart from a possible brief visit to Salisbury (see No. 118 [263-1888]) he spent most of the supper in Suffolk.\r\n\r\n[G Reynolds, 1973, p. 77]","briefDescription":"'Landscape and Double Rainbow', Oil on paper laid on canvas, by John Constable, Suffolk, Britain, 28 July 1812.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<i>Catalogue of the Constable Collection</i>, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, cat. no. 117"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<i>Catalogue of the Constable Collection</i>, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 77-80"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Ian Collins, ed. <u>Masterpieces. Art and East Anglia</u> Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 2013. ISBN: 9780946009626."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"John E. 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It has been related to lines from Wordsworth's poem The Rainbow:\n   My heart leaps up when I behold\n   A rainbow in the sky:\n   So was it when my life began,\n   So is it now I am a man,  \n   So be it when I shall grow old...\n   The child is father of the man...\nTo the Romantic eye, heart and mind, the rainbow seemed the ultimate image of everything in life that was beautiful but transitory, visible but intangible.  Constable himself wrote in his volume of mezzotints English Landscape Scenery in 1833: 'Nature, in all the varied aspects of her beauty,  exhibits no feature more lovely nor any that awaken a more soothing reflection than the rainbow'.","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["328-1888"],"accessionNumberNum":"328","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1888,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-04-30","recordCreationDate":"1999-12-15","availableToBook":false}}