John Constable
Illustration to Stanza III of Grey’s Elegy, ‘Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower/ The moping owl doth to the moon complain’
Artist
John Constable British, 1776–1837
CultureBritish
Titles
- Illustration to Stanza III of Grey’s Elegy, ‘Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower/ The moping owl doth to the moon complain’
Date1833–1835
MediumWatercolor on wove paper
DimensionsSheet (approximate): 4 7/8 × 7 1/2 in. (12.4 × 19 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of The Honorable Anne and Terence Mallinson
Object number2022.81
Not on view
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Department
Prints and DrawingsSpecial Collections
Object Type
Exhibition HistoryN/A
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
(‘Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower/ The moping owl doth to the moon complain’)
Verso: Signed, dated, and inscribed in ink: John Constable, Nov 6 1833/For Mr Martin”
Verso: Signed, dated, and inscribed in ink: John Constable, Nov 6 1833/For Mr Martin”
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Catalogue raisonnéReynolds (however this watercolor was not known to Reynolds)
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John Constable
1833–1835
Watercolor on wove paper
2022.82
John Constable
1833–1835
Watercolor on wove paper
2022.83
John Constable
1833–1835
2022.81-.83: Watercolor on wove paper
2022.84: ink on wove paper
2022.81-.84
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1824
Graphite on wove paper
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c. 1820
Watercolor on two sheets of wove paper, mounted to thick wove paper
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