Borrowdale: Evening after a Fine Day, 1 October 1806
Date:
1806
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor over graphite with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 × 10 1/2 inches (17.8 × 26.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hand in graphite, verso, lower left: "Borrowdale 1 Octr.1806 - Evening after a fine day."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1070
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
trees | evening | lake | landscape | mountains | day
Associated Places:
Lake District | United Kingdom | Borrowdale | Cumbria | England | Derwent | Europe
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Oil on water, oil sketches by British watercolorists , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1986, p. 19, fig. 6, ND467 C67 (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, The early paintings and drawings of John Constable, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1996, p.102 (v.1), no. 6.210, pl. 584 [v.2], NJ18 C74 R484 1996 + (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 5, no. 19, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA)Christopher White, English landscape, 1630-1850, drawings, prints & books from the Paul Mellon Collection , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, p. 86, no. 155, pl. CXXXIV, NC228 W45 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 120-21, no. 51, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
In September 1806 Constable left his home at East Bergholt for a two-month tour of the Lake District. Hitherto his landscapes had attracted no attention in the London exhibitions, and this discouraging fact probably induced him to make the journey north, since views of the Lakes were almost certain to be noticed. By the end of September Constable was sketching at Borrowdale, where he spent three weeks making numerous somber watercolor studies such as this. Typically his focus was on transitory weather conditions, the inscription on the back of this drawing noting the date, "1 October 1806," with the added detail that it was made in the "Evening after a fine day." Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)