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Artist: Constable, John (74)

Period: 19th century (9817)

Type: ink (2963)

Style: British (2582)

Subjects: Constable, Emily (1)

Keywords
children (1571) | daughters (28) | girls (229) | reading (173) | sofas (13)

Artist's daughter, Emily, lying on a sofa reading

1834

Constable, John    more

Pen and ink (brown) on paper

height: 10.7 cm; width: 18.2 cm

Inscription
Inscribed (different hand), graphite, verso, mount, Emily laying on the sofa / May 11th 1834 / Sunday afternoon / No.1 Well walk, Hampstead
Titled, dated (artist's hand?), graphite, recto, lower centre, May 18 1834 - Emily.

Acquisition
Witt, Robert Clermont (Sir); bequest; 1952
D.1952.RW.2541.1

Copyright: © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London