Bring your favorites together in your free personal gallery.
Your gallerySalisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds
Look first
- What catches your attention?
- Where does your eye go next?
- What would you ask about this work?
Show me
Follow the arch made by the two trees up to the spire, then find the cows and the two small figures that set the scale below.
Constable frames the tall spire of Salisbury Cathedral between two leaning trees, seen from the open lawns of the bishop’s grounds. Cows drink and graze by the stream in front, and two small figures stand in the shade at left. The Met dates the canvas to about 1825, and it came to the museum in 1950 as a bequest from Mary Stillman Harkness.
Oil on canvas · 34 5/8 x 44 in. (87.9 x 111.8 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Romanticism
Look again
What do you notice now?
Try a quick sketch
Take a minute to sketch on any paper. No upload needed.
What did you draw first? What did you leave out?
Details and source
- Museum title
- Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds
- Artist
- John Constable (British, East Bergholt 1776–1837 Hampstead)
- Date
- ca. 1825
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 34 5/8 x 44 in. (87.9 x 111.8 cm)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.