Stoke Poges Church, Buckinghamshire
John Constable, RA (East Bergholt 1776 - London 1837)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
circa 1832
Materials
Watercolour on paper
Measurements
125 x 191 mm
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Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 514130
Summary
Watercolour on paper, Stoke Poges Church, Buckinghamshire by John Constable, RA (East Bergholt 1776 – London 1837), 1833-4. In 1833 Constable embarked upon a series of designs for illustrations to Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard at the request of the London bibliographer John Martin (1791-1855). Three of the designs were engraved on wood for the first edition of the book, published in 1834. A vignette of the exterior of the church was added to the title-page of the second edition of 1839. Another watercolour of the subject, which shows the church from the graveyard during the day and is dated by Constable July 1833, is in the collection of V&A, London (acc.no. 174-1888).
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
John Constable, RA (East Bergholt 1776 - London 1837), artist
