Skip to main content

The Lock: PD.11-1951

An image of Drawing

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

Alternative views

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

The Lock

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Constable, John

Entities

Categories

Notes

History note: Isabel Constable to Clifford Constable, her nephew, and from him (?) to J. Calm in 1899 (see letter in File from C. Constable to J. Calm dated 2 February 1899); J.P. Heseltine, 1902 (Lugt 1508); sold Sotheby's, 25 March 1920, lot ?, bt. by P.M. Turner

Legal notes

Bequeathed 1950.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1951) by Turner, Percy Moore

Dating

Production date: circa AD 1826

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

Sepia wash
White bodycolour
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Centre Sheet Height 257 mm Width 311 mm
Left Sheet Height 257 mm Width 56 mm
Overall Size Height 287 mm Width 364 mm
Top Sheet Height 33 mm Width 364 mm

Techniques used in production

Drawing (image-making) : Reed pen and sepia wash, graphite and traces of white heightening, on paper (paper creased in centre with two additional strips of paper added)

References and bibliographic entries

Related exhibitions

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.11-1951
Primary reference Number: 14961
Lugt: 1508
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 22 June 2022 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "The Lock" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/14961 Accessed: 2024-03-29 05:17:41

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/14961 |title=The Lock |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-03-29 05:17:41|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-14961

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp13/PD_11_1951.jpg"
        alt="The Lock"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">The Lock</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>
    

More objects and works of art you might like

Lock

Accession Number: GR.107a.1907

Lock

Accession Number: M.11-1940

Lock

Accession Number: M.12-1940

Suggested products from Curating Cambridge

You might be interested in this...

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...