Poppy Harvey-Jones
Head of Sale
Lot 9
John Constable R.A.(Suffolk 1776-1837 Hampstead)The Church of Saint Mary-ad-Murum, Colchester, 1808
9 December 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£10,000 - £15,000
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John Constable R.A. (Suffolk 1776-1837 Hampstead)
The Church of Saint Mary-ad-Murum, Colchester, 1808
inscribed and dated 'Colchester St Mary's:/Octr. 29. 1808' (upper left)
pencil on paper, the centre squared, watermark a crown above a circle
9.2 x 14.9cm (3 5/8 x 5 7/8in).
inscribed and dated 'Colchester St Mary's:/Octr. 29. 1808' (upper left)
pencil on paper, the centre squared, watermark a crown above a circle
9.2 x 14.9cm (3 5/8 x 5 7/8in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Sir J.C. Robinson
Sale, Christie's, London, 21 April 1902, lot 12 (with a drawing of Colchester Castle)
With Leggatt's, London
Sale, Christie's, London, 12 July 1988, lot 5
With Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, where purchased by
Private Collection, UK, July 1988
Literature
C.G. Holmes, Constable and his Influence on Landscape Painting, London, 1902, p. 238
I. Fleming-Williams, Constable and His Drawings, London, 1990, p. 24, fig. 8
G. Reynolds, The Early Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, New Haven and London, 1996, p. 121, no. 08.12, ill. pl. 697
This drawing is a page from a sketchbook of laid paper watermarked 1806 which Constable is known to have used in 1808 and 1809. Other, similar views of Saint Mary's-ad-Murum can be seen in Constable's sketchbook from 1813 (see: Reynolds, ibid, p. 182, no. 13.17, pl. 1007).
