Art, literature & history
Hampstead Heath, Looking Toward Harrow
c. 1821
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- oil on paper, mounted on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 39 x 44.5 x 5 cm (15 3/8 x 17 1/2 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 25.9 x 31.3 cm (10 3/16 x 12 5/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1916.1027
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Constable. Hampstead Heath, Looking Toward Harrow. The Cleveland Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Hampstead Heath, Looking Toward Harrow — John Constable. c. 1821.
Medium: oil on paper, mounted on canvas. Dimensions: Framed: 39 x 44.5 x 5 cm (15 3/8 x 17 1/2 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 25.9 x 31.3 cm (10 3/16 x 12 5/16 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
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.”
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.