Title

Flatford Mill From The Lock, c1810. Creator: John Constable.

Caption

Flatford Mill From The Lock, c1810. The first in a series of studies, this work depicts the mill on the River Stour that was owned by Constable’s father. The figure of the lockkeeper leaning over the lock gate emphasizes the importance of the river as a transportation route.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM24A23_379

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

74,1Mb (4,5Mb) / 19,2in x 15,0in / 5771 x 4489 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation river scenic countryside building England people male job man men landscape painting industry country dark lock guy occupation romantic view British museum geography English color industrial rustic mill darkness scenery location century vista Britain profession concept Suffolk one person vale romanticism art museum oil Painting Colour 19th century water transport Museum of Art watermill nineteenth century water mill rural River Stour Dedham Vale East Bergholt Flatford 1810s Flatford Mill geographical feature lock keeper Oil on canvas rural life TGN building exterior landscape oil Listed Building John Constable Grade I Constable John Regionalism Oil on paper Romantic Era Clark Art Institute Heritage Art 19th-century oil on beige laid (?) paper mounted on canvas