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Constable’s Salisbury rainbow: a fusion of science and culture?
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 740-744
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Author:
Thornes, John (Thornes, John)
Subjects
art literature:
Keats, John / Lamb, Charles / Wordsworth, William / Thomson, James / Field, George
artists:
Constable, John / Lucas, David, 1802-1881 / Leslie, Charles Robert / Haydon, Benjamin Robert
dates:
1800-1849
media:
Paintings / Drawings / Watercolours
museums and institutions:
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain / Birmingham Society of Arts, Birmingham, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London / Salisbury
subjects:
British painting / Romanticism / Nature / Science / Meteorology / Rainbows / Colour / Perception / Poetry / Landscapes (visual works) / Symbolism (artistic concept) / Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, Great Britain / Visual sources / Naturalism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Landscape with a double rainbow, by John Constable. 1812. Oil on paper, laid on canvas, 33.7 cm by 38.4 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
2. Sky study with a rainbow, by John Constable. 1827. Watercolour on paper, 22.5 by 18.4 cm. (Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. View from Hampstead, with a double rainbow (Hampstead Heath in a storm), by John Constable. 1831. Watercolour on paper, 19.7 by 32 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
5. Salisbury Cathedral from the meadows, by John Constable. 1831. Canvas, 152 by 190 cm. (Tate, London; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
7. A chromascope. Engraving. (From Chromatography by George Field, London 1835, p.232).
Western art unattributed:
4. Solar geometry from the viewpoint of Fig.3 at 6 Well Walk, Hampstead, at 7pm GMT on 5th June 1830 (Bridgeman Images).
Western art unattributed:
6. Solar geometry from the viewpoint of Fig.5 (at the intersection of the lines is the viewpoint from which Salisbury Cathedral from the meadows was painted), at 7pm (GMT) on 25th August 1832, with the sun’s azimuth close to 290 degrees.