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"id": "ycba-b1981-25-155",
"holder": "Yale Center for British Art",
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"title": "Cloud Study",
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"time_text": null,
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"inscription_status": "not-transcribed-on-museum-page",
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"place_text": null,
"medium": "Oil on paper laid on board",
"dimensions_text": "9 3/4 x 11 7/8 inches (24.8 x 30.2 cm)",
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"rights_text": "Public Domain",
"thornes_number": 23,
"nephos_record": null,
"notes": "The museum date field gives only 1821. A provenance narrative mentions 28 September 1821, but no day is assigned here because the record publishes no transcription.",
"checked": "2026-09-07",
"thumb_url": "https://images.collections.yale.edu/iiif/2/ycba:eec1f2a3-1b04-4d67-98d7-cfe3a81b8255/full/480,/0/default.jpg",
"thumb_credit": "Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Public domain."
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{
"id": "ycba-b1981-25-128",
"holder": "Yale Center for British Art",
"holder_url": "https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:639",
"accession": "B1981.25.128",
"title": "A Cloud Study, Sunset",
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"date_iso": "1821",
"date_quality": "catalogue-circa",
"time_text": null,
"inscription_verbatim": null,
"inscription_status": "not-transcribed-on-museum-page",
"inscription_url": "https://harvester-bl.britishart.yale.edu/oaicatmuseum/OAIHandler?verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:tms.ycba.yale.edu:639&metadataPrefix=lido",
"place_text": null,
"medium": "Oil on paper on millboard",
"dimensions_text": "6 x 9 1/2 inches (15.2 x 24.1 cm)",
"image_url": "https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/639",
"rights_text": "Public Domain",
"thornes_number": null,
"nephos_record": null,
"notes": "Listed under its first year; the museum's “circa” is kept.",
"checked": "2026-09-07",
"thumb_url": "https://images.collections.yale.edu/iiif/2/ycba:89904500-2fb5-438d-9e54-dd82d104b63e/full/480,/0/default.jpg",
"thumb_credit": "Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Public domain."
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"id": "ycba-b1981-25-148",
"holder": "Yale Center for British Art",
"holder_url": "https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:659",
"accession": "B1981.25.148",
"title": "Cloud Study",
"date_text": "ca. 1821",
"date_iso": "1821",
"date_quality": "catalogue-circa",
"time_text": null,
"inscription_verbatim": null,
"inscription_status": "not-transcribed-on-museum-page",
"inscription_url": "https://harvester-bl.britishart.yale.edu/oaicatmuseum/OAIHandler?verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:tms.ycba.yale.edu:659&metadataPrefix=lido",
"place_text": null,
"medium": "Oil on paper laid on card",
"dimensions_text": "8 × 10 3/4 inches (20.3 × 27.3 cm)",
"image_url": "https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/659",
"rights_text": "Public Domain",
"thornes_number": null,
"nephos_record": null,
"notes": "Listed under its first year; the museum's “circa” is kept.",
"checked": "2026-09-07",
"thumb_url": "https://images.collections.yale.edu/iiif/2/ycba:de757799-ce5a-4cfd-9e76-ee23b50e62db/full/480,/0/default.jpg",
"thumb_credit": "Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Public domain."
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{
"id": "ycba-b1981-25-146",
"holder": "Yale Center for British Art",
"holder_url": "https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5026",
"accession": "B1981.25.146",
"title": "Cloud Study",
"date_text": "ca. 1821",
"date_iso": "1821",
"date_quality": "catalogue-circa",
"time_text": null,
"inscription_verbatim": null,
"inscription_status": "not-transcribed-on-museum-page",
"inscription_url": "https://harvester-bl.britishart.yale.edu/oaicatmuseum/OAIHandler?verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:tms.ycba.yale.edu:5026&metadataPrefix=lido",
"place_text": null,
"medium": "Oil on paper laid on card",
"dimensions_text": "9 3/8 x 11 1/2 inches (23.8 x 29.2 cm)",
"image_url": "https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/5026",
"rights_text": "Public Domain",
"thornes_number": null,
"nephos_record": null,
"notes": "Listed under its first year; the museum's “circa” is kept.",
"checked": "2026-09-07",
"thumb_url": "https://images.collections.yale.edu/iiif/2/ycba:d52b2eed-f1fd-46d9-b274-5331c0f0fdb2/full/480,/0/default.jpg",
"thumb_credit": "Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Public domain."
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{
"id": "ycba-b1981-25-136",
"holder": "Yale Center for British Art",
"holder_url": "https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:647",
"accession": "B1981.25.136",
"title": "Cloud Study",
"date_text": "ca. 1821",
"date_iso": "1821",
"date_quality": "catalogue-circa",
"time_text": null,
"inscription_verbatim": null,
"inscription_status": "not-transcribed-on-museum-page",
"inscription_url": "https://harvester-bl.britishart.yale.edu/oaicatmuseum/OAIHandler?verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:tms.ycba.yale.edu:647&metadataPrefix=lido",
"place_text": null,
"medium": "Oil on canvas",
"dimensions_text": "7 5/8 x 9 1/2 inches (19.4 x 24.1 cm)",
"image_url": "https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/647",
"rights_text": "Public Domain",
"thornes_number": null,
"nephos_record": null,
"notes": "Listed under its first year; the museum's “circa” is kept.",
"checked": "2026-09-07",
"thumb_url": "https://images.collections.yale.edu/iiif/2/ycba:a0faebd9-adfa-4890-b72b-4e1c26de9b9c/full/480,/0/default.jpg",
"thumb_credit": "Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Public domain."
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{
"id": "ycba-b1981-25-125",
"holder": "Yale Center for British Art",
"holder_url": "https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:636",
"accession": "B1981.25.125",
"title": "Cloud Study",
"date_text": "ca. 1821",
"date_iso": "1821",
"date_quality": "catalogue-circa",
"time_text": null,
"inscription_verbatim": null,
"inscription_status": "not-transcribed-on-museum-page",
"inscription_url": "https://harvester-bl.britishart.yale.edu/oaicatmuseum/OAIHandler?verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:tms.ycba.yale.edu:636&metadataPrefix=lido",
"place_text": null,
"medium": "Oil on paper laid on panel",
"dimensions_text": "7 1/4 x 9 5/8 inches (18.4 x 24.4 cm)",
"image_url": "https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/636",
"rights_text": "Public Domain",
"thornes_number": null,
"nephos_record": null,
"notes": "Listed under its first year; the museum's “circa” is kept.",
"checked": "2026-09-07",
"thumb_url": "https://images.collections.yale.edu/iiif/2/ycba:f9912480-15e1-4e63-9c73-f4e34d57d429/full/480,/0/default.jpg",
"thumb_credit": "Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Public domain."
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"id": "vam-162-1888",
"holder": "Victoria and Albert Museum",
"holder_url": "https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O25338/",
"accession": "162-1888",
"title": "Study of clouds and trees",
"date_text": "1821-1822",
"date_iso": "1821",
"date_quality": "catalogue-circa",
"time_text": null,
"inscription_verbatim": "Charles Constable",
"inscription_status": "museum-transcription",
"inscription_url": "https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/museumobject/O25338",
"place_text": "London",
"medium": "Oil on paper",
"dimensions_text": "Height: 24.8 cm (estimate); Width: 29.8 cm (estimate)",
"image_url": "https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O25338/manifest.json",
"rights_text": "©Victoria and Albert Museum, London",
"thornes_number": null,
"nephos_record": null,
"notes": "Listed under 1821, the first year of the museum's range.",
"checked": "2026-09-07",
"thumb_url": null,
"thumb_credit": null
},
{
"id": "vam-157-1888",
"holder": "Victoria and Albert Museum",
"holder_url": "https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O126217/",
"accession": "157-1888",
"title": "Study of sky and trees",
"date_text": "ca. 1821",
"date_iso": "1821",
"date_quality": "catalogue-circa",
"time_text": null,
"inscription_verbatim": "M.L.",
"inscription_status": "museum-transcription",
"inscription_url": "https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/museumobject/O126217",
"place_text": "England",
"medium": "oil on paper",
"dimensions_text": "Height: 25.4 cm (estimate); Width: 29.8 cm (estimate)",
"image_url": "https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O126217/manifest.json",
"rights_text": "©Victoria and Albert Museum, London",
"thornes_number": null,
"nephos_record": null,
"notes": "The museum also transcribes the marks 4d and J.C. Listed under its first year; the museum's “circa” is kept.",
"checked": "2026-09-07",
"thumb_url": null,
"thumb_credit": null
},
{
"id": "british-museum-1888-0215-57",
"holder": "British Museum",
"holder_url": "https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1888-0215-57",
"accession": "1888,0215.57",
"title": "drawing",
"date_text": "1821",
"date_iso": "1821",
"date_quality": "catalogue-year",
"time_text": null,
"inscription_verbatim": null,
"inscription_status": "museum-states-no-inscription",
"inscription_url": "https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1888-0215-57",
"place_text": "London (England)",
"medium": "Watercolour over graphite",
"dimensions_text": "Height: 168 millimetres; Width: 253 millimetres",
"image_url": null,
"rights_text": null,
"thornes_number": null,
"nephos_record": null,
"notes": "The holder title is the object type drawing; its description identifies it as Study of clouds and trees probably at Hampstead. The curator's comments expressly say it is not inscribed.",
"checked": "2026-09-07",
"thumb_url": null,
"thumb_credit": null
},
{
"id": "nga-1998-20-1",
"holder": "National Gallery of Art",
"holder_url": "https://www.nga.gov/artworks/104243-cloud-study-stormy-sunset",
"accession": "1998.20.1",
"title": "Cloud Study: Stormy Sunset",
"date_text": "1821-1822",
"date_iso": "1821",
"date_quality": "catalogue-circa",
"time_text": null,
"inscription_verbatim": null,
"inscription_status": "not-transcribed-on-museum-page",
"inscription_url": "https://www.nga.gov/artworks/104243-cloud-study-stormy-sunset",
"place_text": "Hampstead",
"medium": "oil on paper on canvas",
"dimensions_text": "overall: 20.3 × 27.3 cm (8 × 10 3/4 in.)",
"image_url": "https://api.nga.gov/iiif/83544e9a-2499-4d42-aeb1-62dbc2c2392b/full/950%2C/0/default.jpg",
"rights_text": "This object’s media is free and in the public domain.",
"thornes_number": null,
"nephos_record": null,
"notes": "The holder says the work is not visibly annotated, although writing may be hidden by the mount or trimmed. Listed under 1821, the first year of the museum's range.",
"checked": "2026-09-07",
"thumb_url": "https://api.nga.gov/iiif/83544e9a-2499-4d42-aeb1-62dbc2c2392b/full/950%2C/0/default.jpg",
"thumb_credit": "National Gallery of Art, Washington. Public domain."
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{
"id": "ycba-b1981-25-117",
"holder": "Yale Center for British Art",
"holder_url": "https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:628",
"accession": "B1981.25.117",
"title": "Cloud Study, Early Morning, Looking East from Hampstead",
"date_text": "1821",
"date_iso": "1821-07-19",
"date_quality": "inscribed-day",
"time_text": "1/2 p 5 AM",
"inscription_verbatim": "1/2 p 5 AM 19 July | looking East. | The day beautiful at noon plain blue sky.",
"inscription_status": "museum-transcription",
"inscription_url": "https://harvester-bl.britishart.yale.edu/oaicatmuseum/OAIHandler?verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:tms.ycba.yale.edu:628&metadataPrefix=lido",
"place_text": "Hampstead",
"medium": "Oil on paper on board",
"dimensions_text": "5 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches (14.6 x 32.4 cm)",
"image_url": "https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/628",
"rights_text": "Public Domain",
"thornes_number": 7,
"nephos_record": "/record/ycba/b1981-25-117/",
"notes": "The catalogue date gives the year and the museum transcription supplies the day and month.",
"checked": "2026-09-07",
"thumb_url": "https://images.collections.yale.edu/iiif/2/ycba:cf622dc4-3b02-4be8-90d3-0a4c64b5373a/full/480,/0/default.jpg",
"thumb_credit": "Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Public domain."
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{
"id": "vam-151-1888",
"holder": "Victoria and Albert Museum",
"holder_url": "https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O126085/",
"accession": "151-1888",
"title": "Study of sky and trees",
"date_text": "ca. 1821",
"date_iso": "1821-09-03",
"date_quality": "inscribed-day-disputed",
"time_text": "Noon",
"inscription_verbatim": "September 3d. Noon. very sultry. with large drops of Rain falling on my palate light air from S.W.",
"inscription_status": "museum-transcription",
"inscription_url": "https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/museumobject/O126085",
"place_text": "England",
"medium": "Oil on paper",
"dimensions_text": "Height: 24.1 cm (estimate); Width: 29.8 cm (estimate)",
"image_url": "https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O126085/manifest.json",
"rights_text": "©Victoria and Albert Museum, London",
"thornes_number": null,
"nephos_record": "/record/vam/151-1888/",
"notes": "The inscription supplies 3 September but no year. The year comes from the museum's catalogue date, circa 1821, so the full day is marked disputed.",
"checked": "2026-09-07",
"thumb_url": null,
"thumb_credit": null
},
{
"id": "raa-03-455",
"holder": "Royal Academy of Arts",
"holder_url": "https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/cloud-study-hampstead-tree-at-right",
"accession": "03/455",
"title": "Cloud Study, Hampstead, Tree at Right",
"date_text": "11 September 1821",
"date_iso": "1821-09-11",
"date_quality": "catalogue-day",
"time_text": null,
"inscription_verbatim": null,
"inscription_status": "not-transcribed-on-museum-page",
"inscription_url": "https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/cloud-study-hampstead-tree-at-right",
"place_text": "Hampstead",
"medium": "Oil on paper laid on board, red ground",
"dimensions_text": "241 x 299 mm",
"image_url": null,
"rights_text": null,
"thornes_number": null,
"nephos_record": null,
"notes": "The day is supplied by the Royal Academy catalogue and collection guide. No transcription was copied from a partner or secondary page.",
"checked": "2026-09-07",
"thumb_url": null,
"thumb_credit": null
},
{
"id": "vam-156-1888",
"holder": "Victoria and Albert Museum",
"holder_url": "https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O126211/",
"accession": "156-1888",
"title": "Study of sky and trees, with a red house, at Hampstead",
"date_text": "12 September 1821",
"date_iso": "1821-09-12",
"date_quality": "inscribed-day",
"time_text": "Noon",
"inscription_verbatim": "Sepr. 12. 1821. Noon. Wind fresh at West ... [3 or 4 words are erased here] Sun very Hot. looking southward exceedingly bright vivid & Glowing, very heavy showers in the Afternoon but a fine evening. High wind in the night.",
"inscription_status": "museum-transcription",
"inscription_url": "https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/museumobject/O126211",
"place_text": "England",
"medium": "Oil on paper",
"dimensions_text": "Height: 24.1 cm (estimate); Width: 29.8 cm (estimate)",
"image_url": "https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O126211/manifest.json",
"rights_text": "©Victoria and Albert Museum, London",
"thornes_number": null,
"nephos_record": "/record/vam/156-1888/",
"notes": "The museum also transcribes a deleted 10 September 1821 weather inscription and the mark M.L.; the undeleted 12 September text is recorded here.",
"checked": "2026-09-07",
"thumb_url": null,
"thumb_credit": null
},
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"id": "ycba-b1981-25-156",
"holder": "Yale Center for British Art",
"holder_url": "https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:667",
"accession": "B1981.25.156",
"title": "Cloud Study",
"date_text": "1821",
"date_iso": "1821-09-13",
"date_quality": "inscribed-day",
"time_text": "one o’clock",
"inscription_verbatim": "Sept[ber] 13th one o’clock. | Slight wind at North West, | which became tempestuous | in the afternoon, with | Rain all the night following.",
"inscription_status": "museum-transcription",
"inscription_url": "https://harvester-bl.britishart.yale.edu/oaicatmuseum/OAIHandler?verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:tms.ycba.yale.edu:667&metadataPrefix=lido",
"place_text": null,
"medium": "Oil on paper on board",
"dimensions_text": "9 3/4 x 11 7/8 inches (24.8 x 30.2 cm)",
"image_url": "https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/667",
"rights_text": "Public Domain",
"thornes_number": 17,
"nephos_record": "/record/ycba/b1981-25-156/",
"notes": "The catalogue date gives the year and the museum transcription supplies the day and month.",
"checked": "2026-09-07",
"thumb_url": "https://images.collections.yale.edu/iiif/2/ycba:0a1d55a5-5120-4aad-af0d-5aedb0b8a8c1/full/480,/0/default.jpg",
"thumb_credit": "Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Public domain."
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{
"id": "vam-167-1888",
"holder": "Victoria and Albert Museum",
"holder_url": "https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O73059/",
"accession": "167-1888",
"title": "Study of Sky and Trees",
"date_text": "24/09/1821",
"date_iso": "1821-09-24",
"date_quality": "inscribed-day",
"time_text": "10 o'clock morning",
"inscription_verbatim": "Sepr. 24th . . 10 o'clock morning wind S.W. warm & fine till afternoon, when it rained & wind got more to the north",
"inscription_status": "museum-transcription",
"inscription_url": "https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/museumobject/O73059",
"place_text": "Hampstead",
"medium": "oil on paper",
"dimensions_text": "Height: 24.8 cm (estimate); Width: 30.5 cm (estimate)",
"image_url": "https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O73059/manifest.json",
"rights_text": "©Victoria and Albert Museum, London",
"thornes_number": null,
"nephos_record": "/record/vam/167-1888/",
"notes": "The museum qualifies Hampstead as probable and also transcribes the monogram JC.",
"checked": "2026-09-07",
"thumb_url": null,
"thumb_credit": null
},
{
"id": "ycba-b1981-25-147",
"holder": "Yale Center for British Art",
"holder_url": "https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:658",
"accession": "B1981.25.147",
"title": "Cloud Study",
"date_text": "1821",
"date_iso": "1821-09-25",
"date_quality": "inscribed-day",
"time_text": "about from 2 to 3 afternoon",
"inscription_verbatim": "25th Septr. 1821 about from | 2 to 3 afternoon looking to | the north- | Strong Wind at west, bright | light coming through the | Clouds which were laying | one on another",
"inscription_status": "museum-transcription",
"inscription_url": "https://harvester-bl.britishart.yale.edu/oaicatmuseum/OAIHandler?verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:tms.ycba.yale.edu:658&metadataPrefix=lido",
"place_text": null,
"medium": "Oil on paper laid on panel",
"dimensions_text": "8 3/8 × 11 1/2 inches (21.3 × 29.2 cm)",
"image_url": "https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/658",
"rights_text": "Public Domain",
"thornes_number": 19,
"nephos_record": "/record/ycba/b1981-25-147/",
"notes": "The catalogue date gives the year and the museum transcription supplies the full day.",
"checked": "2026-09-07",
"thumb_url": "https://images.collections.yale.edu/iiif/2/ycba:3a83aff3-605a-4608-9d8d-43ecf6e38797/full/480,/0/default.jpg",
"thumb_credit": "Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Public domain."
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"id": "raa-03-1994",
"holder": "Royal Academy of Arts",
"holder_url": "https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/cloud-study-horizon-of-trees",
"accession": "03/1994",
"title": "Cloud Study: Horizon of Trees",
"date_text": "27 September 1821",
"date_iso": "1821-09-27",
"date_quality": "catalogue-day",
"time_text": null,
"inscription_verbatim": null,
"inscription_status": "not-transcribed-on-museum-page",
"inscription_url": "https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/cloud-study-horizon-of-trees",
"place_text": "Hampstead Heath",
"medium": "Oil on paper laid on board, red ground",
"dimensions_text": "25.8 x 30.5 cm",
"image_url": null,
"rights_text": null,
"thornes_number": null,
"nephos_record": null,
"notes": "The day is supplied by the Royal Academy catalogue. No transcription was copied from a partner or secondary page.",
"checked": "2026-09-07",
"thumb_url": null,
"thumb_credit": null
},
{
"id": "ycba-b1981-25-152",
"holder": "Yale Center for British Art",
"holder_url": "https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:663",
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"id": "vam-784-1888",
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"id": "fitzwilliam-pd-222-1961",
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"id": "ycba-b1981-25-144",
"holder": "Yale Center for British Art",
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"id": "tate-n06065",
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"id": "vam-590-1888",
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"id": "ngv-455-4",
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"id": "courtauld-p-1952-rw-69",
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"id": "ycba-b1981-25-116",
"holder": "Yale Center for British Art",
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"dimensions_text": "11 1/4 × 19 inches (28.6 × 48.3 cm)",
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"rights_text": "Public Domain",
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"notes": "Yale's bibliography explicitly catalogues this work as Thornes no. 52, plate 123.",
"checked": "2026-09-07",
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"id": "ashmolean-wa1933-7",
"holder": "Ashmolean Museum",
"holder_url": "https://collections.ashmolean.org/object/372592",
"accession": "WA1933.7",
"title": "Study of Clouds",
"date_text": "1822",
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"time_text": "10-11 o'clock morning",
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"notes": "The literal inscription gives the impossible date 31 September. The museum catalogue says Constable's mistake can be silently corrected to 1 October 1822; the register exposes the dispute instead.",
"checked": "2026-09-07",
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},
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"id": "ycba-b1981-25-124",
"holder": "Yale Center for British Art",
"holder_url": "https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:635",
"accession": "B1981.25.124",
"title": "Study of a Cloudy Sky",
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"medium": "Oil on paper on millboard",
"dimensions_text": "10 3/8 x 13 inches (26.4 x 33 cm)",
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"notes": "Listed under its first year; the museum's “circa” is kept.",
"checked": "2026-09-07",
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"id": "met-2016-589",
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"notes": "The museum mentions a fragmentary inscription at upper right that affirms September but publishes no transcription. Listed under 1830, the first year of the museum's range.",
"checked": "2026-09-07",
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"id": "tate-t01940",
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"holder_url": "https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/constable-cloud-study-with-verses-from-bloomfield-t01940",
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"notes": "The holder identifies the text as Constable's transcription of lines 245-262 of Winter in Robert Bloomfield's The Farmer's Boy. Listed under 1830, the first year of the museum's decade.",
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"id": "vam-240-1888",
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"title": "Study of clouds above a wide landscape",
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"id": "vam-202-1888",
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"title": "Study of sky effect",
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