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Look at how the shafts of light break through the dark clouds, then find the small figure in red near the bottom edge.
This small sketch is painted in oil on paper, the quick outdoor method Constable often used to record changing light and weather. Heavy grey cloud fills most of the picture, and a band of light falls across the heath toward Harrow on the horizon. The Cleveland Museum of Art notes that he painted the countryside of his native England and never left it.
oil on paper, mounted on canvas · Framed: 39 x 44.5 x 5 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Romanticism
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- Museum title
- Hampstead Heath, Looking Toward Harrow
- Artist
- John Constable (British, 1776–1837)
- Date
- c. 1821
- Medium
- oil on paper, mounted on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 39 x 44.5 x 5 cm (15 3/8 x 17 1/2 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 25.9 x 31.3 cm (10 3/16 x 12 5/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.