Art, literature & history
A Mill Near Colchester
1833
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Watercolor over traces of graphite, with scratching out and a touch of pen and brown ink on the horizon, evidence of squaring for transfer in graphite, with a color wash test verso
- Dimensions
- sheet: 5 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (14.6 x 19.7 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2007.41
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Constable. A Mill Near Colchester. John Constable; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, David T. Schiff Gift, 2007. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
A Mill Near Colchester — John Constable. 1833.
Medium: Watercolor over traces of graphite, with scratching out and a touch of pen and brown ink on the horizon, evidence of squaring for transfer in graphite, with a color wash test verso. Dimensions: sheet: 5 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (14.6 x 19.7 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Purchase, David T. Schiff Gift, 2007.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.