Salisbury Cathedral from the North-West

c. 1830–39

Medium	brush and brown ink over graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions	Sheet: 3 1/16 x 2 3/16 in. (7.8 x 5.6 cm) sight: 2 15/16 x 2 3/16 in. (7.5 x 5.6 cm)
Object Number	2007.8.50
Acquisition	Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status	Off View

Image Caption

John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the North-West, c. 1830–39, brush and brown ink over graphite on cream wove paper. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.50

Select Bibliography

Parris, Leslie and Conal Shields. Constable: The Art of Nature. Tate Gallery, London; June 7-July 4, 1971. London: Tate Publishing. 1971. Pionk, Richard C. and Margaret Somers. Constable. Salmagundi Club, October 14 - November 2, 2000. New York, Salmagundi Club. 2000. Parris, Leslie. Constable: A New York Private Collection. Supplement. New York: Published privately, 1998. Reynolds, Graham. The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable. 2 vol. New Haven: Published for the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1984. Day, Harold. John Constable, R.A.: Drawings, The Golden Age. Eastborn, England: Sumfield & Day. 1975. Wilcox, Timothy. Constable and Salisbury: The Soul of Landscape. Exhibition catalogue. London: Scala Books, 2011. Clarke, Jay, ed. Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia: The Manton Collection of British Art. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2012.

Provenance

The artist; possibly Isabel Constable, his daughter, by descent (d. 1888); sale, Christie’s, London, 17 June 1892, no. 183, sold to Rochefort; Rochefort (in 1892); Randall Davies; [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London, sold to Appleby, 1964]; Appleby Bros., Ltd. (in 1964, sold to Day); Harold A. E. Day (sale, Christie’s, London, 7 Apr. 1998, no. 28, sold to Ackermann & Johnson, as agent for Manton); Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1998–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–2007, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.