DrawingsBritish19th century

A Cart and a Horse

1814

Artists

John ConstableArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black ink on thin off-white wove tissue, darkened with the addition of an unknown substance (possibly oiled?), mounted on ivory wove paper

Culture

British

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

12 x 25.4 cm (4 3/4 x 10 in.)

Provenance

Fine Arts Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Transferred to the Fogg Art Museum, 1926.

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