21 September 1822 · 13:30Securely dated inscription
Yale Center for British Art · B1981.25.116
Cloud Study ↗
How far do independent weather sources support Constable’s account?
An artwork is a starting point.
A painted sky.An open question.
Study the painting through the words, observations and questions that surround it.
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Open the Yale study ↗Browse the three studies ↓Paul Mellon Collection · Public domain / CC0
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“wind very fresh at East, but warm.”
Near-agreement is a finding.
So is an unresolved question.
Constable wrote East. Howard’s register reads NE. Different locations and different kinds of evidence limit what follows. The word “warm” remains open.
Follow the wording to its sources →The available studies / John Constable
One artist.
Three source trails.
Three supported object records, not a survey of Constable’s cloud studies. Two carry the same inscribed day. One retains a disputed date. New works enter after identity, sources and date evidence have been assessed.
Dates describe the available record. “Securely dated inscription” does not independently establish when every part was painted. Unresolved dates remain ranges or alternatives.
21 September 1822 · 15:00Securely dated inscription
Image courtesy the Courtauld · CC BY-NC 4.01822 · exact day unresolvedDisputed date
Image at museum
Reuse unresolved
Reuse unresolved
Ashmolean Museum · WA1933.7
Study of Clouds ↗
Can surviving weather records resolve an impossible date?
The interpretation has a history
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Keep the correction.
A provisional OCR reading became a page-image-checked transcription. The reading remained NE; the interpretation stayed qualified. Source verification and a change in conclusion are different events.
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