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Fittleworth Mill, SussexInscribed lower left: July 16. 1835Pencil 22 by 28.5 cm., 8 ¾ by 11 ¼ in.Provenance:Anonymous sale, Christie's, 20th November 1964, lot 3;Dr and Mrs W. Katz, by descent until 2019Literature:Graham Reynolds, The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, 1996, p. 277, no.35.16, ill. pl. 1001 Fittleworth Mill is on the north bank of the river Rother just south of the village of Fittleworth, about three miles south-east of Petworth. Constable, and his children Maria and Charles, went to stay at Arundel in July 1835 with his friend the amateur artist and collector George Constable (1792-1878). Constable had first visited his namesake in July 1834 and, enjoying the Sussex countryside, he returned the following year.){kind=link}
John Constable, R.A. (1776-1837)
Fittleworth Mill, Sussex
Inscribed lower left: July 16. 1835
Pencil
22 by 28.5 cm., 8 ¾ by 11 ¼ in.
Provenance:
Anonymous sale, Christie's, 20th November 1964, lot 3;
Dr and Mrs W. Katz, by descent until 2019
Literature:
Graham Reynolds, The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, 1996, p. 277, no.35.16, ill. pl. 1001
Fittleworth Mill is on the north bank of the river Rother just south of the village of Fittleworth, about three miles south-east of Petworth. Constable, and his children Maria and Charles, went to stay at Arundel in July 1835 with his friend the amateur artist and collector George Constable (1792-1878). Constable had first visited his namesake in July 1834 and, enjoying the Sussex countryside, he returned the following year.