Milford Bridge
John Constable · c. 1826 · etching on wove paper [1st state]
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About this picture
Milford Bridge is a public-domain illustration by John Constable, dated c. 1826. Etching on wove paper [1st state]. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Milford Bridge” (c. 1826) comes out of Constable’s Suffolk studies: clouds, canals, and mills sketched in oil outdoors, then used for a larger picture.
About the artist
John Constable (1776–1837) painted the Suffolk landscape he grew up in: canals, clouds, and mills studied from oil sketches made outdoors. Those cloud studies were working notes for larger exhibition pictures.
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