Hampstead Heath, Looking Toward Harrow
Medium
oil on paper, mounted on canvas
Dimensions
unframed: 25.9 × 31.3 cm · framed: 39 × 44.5 × 5 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
Accession Number
1916.1027
Tags
male
About this artwork
Constable was interested in the changing light effects of weather and often worked outdoors, making swift oil sketches on paper. He focused on painting the countryside of his native England, which he never left. He wrote to a fellow artist that he would “rather be a poor man [in England] than a rich man abroad.”