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Creator:
John Constable, 1776–1837
Title:

Cloud Study

Former Title(s):

Study of Cumulus Clouds [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]

Looking Southward [1937, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]

Date:
1822
Medium:
Oil on paper laid on panel
Dimensions:
11 1/4 × 19 inches (28.6 × 48.3 cm), Frame: 16 3/4 × 24 1/2 inches (42.5 × 62.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

back: "Sep 21 1822 past one o'clock looking South wind very fresh at East, but warm."

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.116
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
blue | clouds | gray (color) | landscape | light | meteorology | science | science | space | study (visual work) | texture | white (color)
Access:
Not on view
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:627
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Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 62-63, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

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Robert Hoozee, L'opera completa di Constable, 98, Rizzoli, Milano, Italy, 1979, pp. 122-23, no. 346, Tav. XXXIXA, NJ18 C74 A12 +H66 (YCBA) [YCBA]

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