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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1926.33.136
People
John Constable, British (E. Bergholt, England 1776 - 1837 London, England)
Title
A Cart and a Horse
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Farmers Gathering Hay
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1814
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299122

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on thin off-white wove tissue, darkened with the addition of an unknown substance (possibly oiled?), mounted on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
12 x 25.4 cm (4 3/4 x 10 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Fine Arts Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Transferred to the Fogg Art Museum, 1926.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Fine Arts Department, Harvard University
Accession Year
1926
Object Number
1926.33.136
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Graham Reynolds, The Early Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1996), cat. no. 14.42, pl. 1189

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