The Houses of Parliament on Fire

1834

Medium	pen and brown ink with watercolor on cream wove paper
Dimensions	3 1/4 x 4 3/16 in. (8.2 x 10.7 cm)
Object Number	2007.8.52
Acquisition	Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status	Off View

Image Caption

John Constable, The Houses of Parliament on Fire, 1834, pen and brown ink with watercolor on cream wove paper. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.52

Select Bibliography

Parris, Leslie. Constable: A New York Private Collection. New York: Published Privately, 1994. . John Constable, R.A.. Colchester Public Library, 1950-1951. 1950. Camberwell Borough Council. The Constable Family: Five Generations. Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, June - September 1954; South London Art Gallery, Camberwell, October 24-November 13, 1954; subsequent tour (Sunderland, etcc), 1954-55. South London Art Gallery. 1954. Spink & Son. English Watercolour Drawings. May 1987. London: Spink & Son, Ltd. 1987. Constable, Freda. John Constable: A Biography, 17761837. Lavenham: Dalton, 1975. 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. Pionk, Richard C. and Margaret Somers. Constable. Salmagundi Club, October 14 - November 2, 2000. New York, Salmagundi Club. 2000. Leslie, C.R. Memoirs of the Life of John Constable. ed. Andrew Shirley. London: Medici Society. 1937. 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; John Hugh Constable, his great-great-grandson, by descent, sold to Spink, 1986; [Spink & Son, Ltd., London, 1986–1987, sold to Manton, June 1987]; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1987–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–2007, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.