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Creator:
John Constable, 1776–1837
Title:

Parham Mill, Gillingham

Former Title(s):

Mill at Gillingham, Dorset

Gillingham Mill, Dorset

A Mill in Gillingham, in Dorsetshire

A Mill at Gillingham

Mill, Gillingham, Dorset

A Mill at Gillingham, in Dorsetshire [1826, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]

Parham Mill, Gilingham

Pernes Mill, Gillingham

Gillingham Mill

A Mill at Gillingham in Dorset

Parham's Mill

Date:
ca. 1826
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
19 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches (50.2 x 60.3 cm), Frame: 27 1/4 × 31 1/4 × 2 inches (69.2 × 79.4 × 5.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.133
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1981.25.133FR
Subject Terms:
cattle | clouds | donkeys | ducks | house | mill | miller | plants | sky | stream | washing | water | water mill | wheel | woman
Associated Places:
Dorset | England | Gillingham | Stour | United Kingdom
Access:
Not on view
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:644
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Despite appalling weather, John Constable drew Perne’s Mill at Gillingham on several occasions in 1823 while he was staying with his friend Dr. John Fisher, the rector of Langham. Dr. Fisher knew the owner of the mill, Mr. Tinney, who had indicated that he would like to have a view of his “ancestor’s mill” as well as a view of Salisbury. For his part, Constable had wanted for some time to “do something” with the mill, which he called “wonderfull old & romantic.” Although the mill burned down in 1825, Constable produced this small picture with the aid of his Gillingham drawings and exhibited it at the Royal Academy in 1826.

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016


Despite appalling weather, Constable drew Perne's Mill at Gillingham on several occasions in 1823, while he was staying with his friend and "kind monitor" Dr. John Fisher, the rector of Langham, and sometime canon of Windsor. Dr. Fisher knew the proud owner, Mr. Tinney, who had indicated that he would like to have a view of his "ancestors mill, and a view of Salisbury." On his side, Constable had wanted for some time to "do something" with the mill, which he called "wonderfull old & romantic." Although the mill burned down in 1825, Constable produced this modest picture with the aid of his Gillingham drawings and showed it at the Royal Academy the following summer (1826).

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2005

British Galleries in the Hermitage (The State Hermitage Museum, 2002-06-21 - 2002-09-21) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2001-02-25 - 2001-05-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (The Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1999-10-22 - 2000-01-02) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1998-02-08 - 1998-04-26) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

John Constable (Tate) (Tate Britain, 1991-06-13 - 1991-09-15) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (Chicago Historical Society, 1988-04-06 - 1988-06-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (Indiana University Art Museum, 1988-01-27 - 1988-03-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (New York Public Library, 1987-10-31 - 1988-01-02) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

John Constable - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1969-04-30 - 1969-11-01) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Canaletto to Constable : paintings of town and country from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., 1998, pp. 17-18, 109, back cover, pl. 42, ND1354.4 Y25 1998 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Catalogue of the Constable collection, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, UK, 1973, p. 180, NJ18 C74 R495 1973 (YCBA) [YCBA]

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]

Malcolm Cormack, Constable, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK & New York, NY, 1986, pp. 148, 150..., pl. 148, NJ18 C74 C75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Exhibition Catalogue. 1826. 58th., Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, no. 58, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1826, p. 11, no. 122, N5054 A53 50-64 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Exhibition Catalogue. 1827. 59th., Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, no. 59, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1827, p. 7, no. 48, N5054 A53 50-64 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Exhibition of works by old masters and by deceased masters of the British School Winter Exhibition 13th Year 1882 , W. Clowes and sons, London, 1882, p. 14, no. 52, Fiche B118 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 8, ND466 G67 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 184-5, no. V.13, pl. 159, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Robert Hoozee, L'opera completa di Constable, 98, Rizzoli, Milano, Italy, 1979, p. 133, no. 465, NJ18 C74 A12 +H66 (YCBA) [YCBA]

John Constable : a selection of paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, , National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1969, pp. 54-55, no. 60, NJ18 C74 U5 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Ray Lambert, John Constable and the theory of landscape painting, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK & New York, NY, 2004, pp. 180-81, fig. 45, NJ18 C74 L36 2004 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Charles Robert Leslie, Memoirs of the life of John Constable composed chiefly of his letters, Phaidon Press, London, UK, 1951, pp. 148..., Pl. 50, NJ18 C74 L47 1951 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Charles Robert Leslie, Memoirs of the life of John Constable, R.A., The Medici Society, Ltd., London, UK, 1937, pp 199-200,20..., pl. 72, NJ18 C74 L47 1937 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, pp. 81-82 (v.1), no. 111, pl. 51 (v.2), ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 22-23 [v.1], no. 69, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Leslie Parris, Constable : paintings, watercolours & drawings, , Tate Publishing, London, UK, 1976, PP. 146-47, NO. 243, FIG.243, NJ18 C74 P37 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Leslie Parris, Constable, Tate Publishing, London, UK, 1991, pp. 262-63, no. 142, pl. 143, NJ18 C74 P372 1991 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Graham Reynolds, Constable, the natural painter, Panther, St. Albans, UK, 1976, p. 91, NJ18 C74 R48 1976 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Graham Reynolds, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1984, pp. 169-70 (v.1), no. 26.4, pl. 620 (v.2), NJ18 C74 R485 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Michael Rosenthal, Constable, Thames and Hudson, London, UK, 1987, pp. 161-2, fig. 152, NJ18 C74 R683 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Michael Rosenthal, Constable, the painter and his landscape, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1983, pp. 179-80, fig. 212, NJ18 C74 R68 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Andrew Shirley, John Constable, R. A., Medical Society, London, 1944, p. 22, no. 72, pl. 72, NJ18 C74 S55 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Basil Taylor, Constable : paintings, drawings and watercolours, , Phaidon, London, UK, 1973, p. 204, note 44, no. 113, NJ18 C74 T39 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Timothy Wilcox, Constable and Salisbury : the soul of landscape, , Scala Publishers, London, UK, 2011, pp. 76-77, fig. 60, NJ18.C74 W53 2011 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]

Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, pp. 10-11 (v. 1), no. 33, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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