John Constable
Illustration to Stanza V of Grey’s Elegy, ‘The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn/ The swallow twitt’ring from the straw-built shed’
Artist
John Constable British, 1776–1837
CultureBritish
Titles
- Illustration to Stanza V of Grey’s Elegy, ‘The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn/ The swallow twitt’ring from the straw-built shed’
Date1833–35
MediumWatercolor on wove paper
DimensionsSheet (approximate): 5 3/8 × 7 in. (13.6 × 17.8 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in memory of Pauline Ella Smith and in honor of Mollie Harlow Zumwalt
Object number2022.82
Not on view
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Exhibition HistoryN/A
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
(‘The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn/ The swallow twitt’ring from the straw-built shed’)
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Catalogue raisonnéReynolds (however this watercolor was not known to Reynolds)
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1833–35
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