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IPSMG:R.1940.26.4

Ipswich Collections

drawing, pencil and wash drawing

Prittlewell Church, Southend

The mounted but unsigned drawing depicts a church and on the left two small figures. In the background are houses and cottages. On the left hand side is a dark cloud. Written on the reverse in pencil horizontally 'Church near/ Southend/ Sheerness/ X Hadlay Castle/ ? (B)each at/ South(?end)/ (74 struck through); and vertically: Prittlewell- / in (?king) Edward the/ 4th (?)gh this was(?called), a (populous) town- said to/ have in it.... people. / Pritlewell Church.Constable described his journey in Essex with Mr Driffield 3 July 1814 to Maria Bicknell. Agnew label on the back of the frame. The drawing is on a page of the dismembered sketchbook used in Suffolk and Essex in June and July 1814.

John Constable (artist)‎

Prittlewell, Southend

1814 - 1814

19th Century

IPSMG:R.1940.26.4Written on the reverse in pencil horizontally 'Church near/ Southend/ Sheerness/ X Hadlay Castle/ ? (B)each at/ South(?end)/ (74 struck through); and vertically: Prittlewell- / in (?king) Edward the/ 4th (?)gh this was(?called), a (populous) town- said to/ have in it.... people. / Pritlewell Church.

pencil, wash, paper, card

height: 80.00 mm
width: 109.00 mm