Walking with Constable
This spot saw the day spring of my Life, Hours of Joy, and years of Happiness, This place first tinged my boyish fancy with a love of the art" John Constable
John Constable is one of the most celebrated and widely studied artists of the 19th century. He was born and brought up on the Suffolk-Essex border and, until he was 22, worked in his father’s thriving milling, grain-merchant firm.
Constable’s connection with the countryside, his intimate familiarity with rural life, is evident in his paintings, drawings, and prints, in his choice of subjects and his attentive observation of the smallest detail of the natural world.
When Constable spoke and wrote on the topic of ‘ landscape’ later in life, he used many of these East-Anglian scenes in an all-encompassing way, to ‘ characterise the scenery of England’, but what did that mean? How much has the landscape changed and how recognisable are the same views today? How can walking with Constable help us understand his work, and what he was doing?
This project uses digital technologies to take prints locked in a museum back into the landscape which made them, which represents them, and of which they are part. Using an app enabling us to pinpoint and ‘see’ various Constable compositions we will curate a series of public walks in landscapes Constable sketched, documenting them to produce, as a form of public writing and as a walking diary.

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Cropmarks, 1 mile ENE of Stratford St. Mary (ADR92)
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Cropmarks, 1.25 miles E of Stratford St. Mary (AFJ59)
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Flatford Mill Field Centre (ANK35)
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Stour Estuary, near Dedham, looking E from (AXL95)
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Panorama near Langham, looking W (BER74)
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Crop marks, NW of Langham (BQK37)
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Cropmarks, 0.75 mile WSW of Holton St Mary (CCR65)
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Cropmarks, 1.5 miles E of East Bergholt (CCR78)
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Cropmarks, Stratford St Mary (CGD49)
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Cropmarks, SSE of Stratford St. Mary (CMP65)
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Crop Patterns, E of Bergholt (CQL71)
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Cropmarks, 0.75 mile NE of Bergholt (CQL72)
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Cropmarks, Stratford St Mary (CRF94)
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Cropmarks, 1.5 miles NE of East Bergholt (CRF96)
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Near Vale farm, East Bergholt (FW21)
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Stoke-by-Nayland, looking NW (HN64)
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Farm Surveys, Denham and Stratford St Mary (RC8GY017)
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Farm Surveys, Denham and Stratford St Mary (RC8GY018)
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Farm Surveys, Denham and Stratford St Mary (RC8GY020)
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Farm Surveys, Denham and Stratford St Mary (RC8GY021)
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Cropmarks, ring-ditches, 0.5 mile NW of Langham (ZC98)
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Cropmarks, W of East Bergholt (ZL8)
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Cropmarks, 1.25 miles ENE of Stratford St.Mary (ZL9)
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A Mill (P.145-1954)
After John Constable. Mezzotint, drypoint. … more -
A Mill (P.146-1954)
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Stoke-by-Neyland, Suffolk (P.158-1955)
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Frontispiece. East Bergholt, Suffolk (P.232-1954 (1)a)
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Spring (P.232-1954 (1)b)
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Autumnal sunset (P.232-1954 (1)c)
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River Stour, Suffolk (P.232-1954 (1)d)
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Summer Evening (P.232-1954 (2)b)
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The Glebe Farm (P.232-1954 (5)c)
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A Mill (P.1352-R)
After John Constable. Mezzotint, drypoint. … more -
A Mill (P.1353-R)
After John Constable. Mezzotint, drypoint. … more -
A Mill (P.1355-R)
After John Constable. Mezzotint, drypoint. … more -
A Mill (P.1356-R)
After John Constable. Mezzotint, drypoint. … more -
A Mill (P.1357-R)
After John Constable. Mezzotint, drypoint. … more -
A Mill (P.1358-R)
After John Constable. Mezzotint, drypoint. … more -
A Mill (P.1359-R)
After John Constable. Mezzotint, drypoint. … more -
A Mill (P.1360-R)
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Recce (Constable Recce)
Supplementary trips to the Dedham Vale AONB documented the area and some of the ‘Walking with Constable’ sites in more detail … more -
Walk A (Constable Walk A)
On 13 June 2022, and after a tricky start to Walk A (one of us lost a sole after only two minutes!) we found our first view, … more -
Walk B (Constable Walk B)
Starting off in a quiet corner of Langham on 6 July 2022, we were joined on Walk B by artist Kate Boucher and photographer … more -
Walk C (Constable Walk C)
With the blazing sun and a heat warning to contend with on 11 July 2022, Walk C was one of the longest routes we’d planned. … more -
Walk D (Constable Walk D)
On a cold but dry November day (22 Nov 2022) we were joined for Walk D by the Sudbury Ramblers, a group who regularly explore … more