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AT-00005784Binfield Rectory and Church, Berkshire
Inscriptions
Inscribed and dated recto, lower left, in graphite: "Rectory. Binfield / Sunday Decr. 8 1816"; inscribed verso, upper center in graphite: "JV [?] / Christ [?]"; upper right, in graphite: "1914"; lower center, in graphite: "VK289" [encircled]; lower right, in graphite: "J[?]…/... /…"
Provenance
John Postle Heseltine (1843–1929), London; sold, Sotheby’s, London, Mar. 25, 1920, either lot 123A or part of lots 124 or 126. W. S. Corder. Anthony Reed, 1986 [Reynolds 1996]. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, Mar. 12, 1987, lot 77 to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brooklin, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
London, Spink-Leger, "Master Drawings: 17th to 20th Century," 1998, cat. 26 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 76, cat. 47 (ill.).
Publications
Ian Fleming Williams, “The Honeymoon Sketch-Book,” Old Water-Colour Society's Club Annual LXI (1986), p. 22, no. 26, fig. 14. Ian Fleming Williams, Constable and His Drawings (London, 1990), p. 144. Graham Reynolds, The Early Paintings and Drawings of John Constable (New Haven, 1996), p. 231, cat. 16.91, pl. 135. Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 76, cat. 47 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- John Constable / English, 1776-1837
- Date
- 1816
- Medium
- Graphite on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 8.9 × 11.7 cm (3 9/16 × 4 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.913
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