{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O69881"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O69881/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006BD0892/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006BD0892/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2006BD0892","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2006AG3411","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2006AR1047","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2017JW5374","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O69881/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O69881","accessionNumber":"124-1888","objectType":"Oil painting","titles":[{"title":"Dedham Vale","type":"popular title"}],"summaryDescription":"Constable based this study on the work of another artist. He rarely did this. However, here he used <i>Hagar and the Angel</i>, which the French artist Claude Lorrain painted in 1646. Constable esteemed Claude as 'the most perfect landscape painter the world ever saw'.","physicalDescription":"Dedham Vale. Oil on canvas. Depicts a small river valley with trees either side. In the distance is a village with a church tower and fields with cows.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Constable, John (RA)","id":"A8267"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"oil colour","id":"AAT15050"},{"text":"canvas","id":"AAT14078"}],"techniques":[{"text":"oil painting","id":"AAT178684"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"oil on canvas","categories":[{"text":"Images Online","id":"THES48937"},{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"}],"styles":[{"text":"British School","id":"x30967"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006BD0892","2006AG3411","2006AR1047","2017JW5374"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"SHLN","id":"THES49063"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"oil paintings","id":"AAT33799"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Great Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1802","earliest":"1802-01-01","latest":"1802-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Isabel Constable","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"43.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"estimate","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"34.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"estimate","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from <i>Catalogue of the Constable Collection</i>, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Given by Isabel Constable, 1888","historicalContext":"'Constable exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy in 1802, his entry being called 'A Landscape'; this painting has not yet been identified. He visited Windsor in May (see Nos. 33-35), and was at East Bergholt in the summer and autumn.'\r\n\r\n[G Reynolds]","briefDescription":"Dedham Vale by John Constable (1776-1837); oil on canvas; 1802 .","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Parris, Leslie and Fleming-Williams, Ian. <i>Constable </i> London : The Tate Gallery, 1991","id":"AUTH354806"},"details":"no.2","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<i>Catalogue of the Constable Collection</i>, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, cat. no. 37"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"G. Reynolds, <i>Victoria and Albert Museum: Catalogue of the Constable Collection</i>, 1973, pp. 44-48"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Evans, M., with N. Costaras and C. Richardson, <u>John Constable. Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum</u>, London: V&A, 2011, p. 40, cat. no. 2."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"p.154","free":"Ian Collins, ed. <u>Masterpieces. Art and East Anglia</u> Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 2013. ISBN: 9780946009626."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[{"text":"Dedham Vale","id":"x35169"}],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"landscapes (representations)","id":"AAT15636"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["124-1888"],"accessionNumberNum":"124","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1888,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-04-13","recordCreationDate":"2002-11-12","availableToBook":false}}