![135Ward (James, 1769-1859) Cloud study, brush and watercolour, on cream wove paper, signed with initials in the lower left corner, sheet 130 x 260 mm (5 1/8 x 10 1/4 in), minor surface dirt, unframed, [circa 1811-1830]Provenance:Private collection UK*** The Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, hold five other cloud studies by Ward, possibly inspired by the sketches John Constable was beginning to produce in the 1820s.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/ba2940f6-c392-ef11-8a6b-00224840d112/34200471-1cbe-ef11-b8ec-0022483fc7e7.webp "135Ward (James, 1769-1859) Cloud study, brush and watercolour, on cream wove paper, signed with initials in the lower left corner, sheet 130 x 260 mm (5 1/8 x 10 1/4 in), minor surface dirt, unframed, [circa 1811-1830]Provenance:Private collection UK*** The Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, hold five other cloud studies by Ward, possibly inspired by the sketches John Constable was beginning to produce in the 1820s.")
Lot 135
Ward (James) Cloud study, watercolour, [circa 1811-1830]
Hammer Price: £6,500
Description
Ward (James, 1769-1859) Cloud study, brush and watercolour, on cream wove paper, signed with initials in the lower left corner, sheet 130 x 260 mm (5 1/8 x 10 1/4 in), minor surface dirt, unframed, [circa 1811-1830]
Provenance:
Private collection UK
⁂ The Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, hold five other cloud studies by Ward, possibly inspired by the sketches John Constable was beginning to produce in the 1820s. "It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale and the chief organ of sentiment" (R.B. Beckett, ed., John Constable's Correspondence VI, The Fishers Vol VI, Ipsiwch, Suffolk, pp.76-77).
Description
Ward (James, 1769-1859) Cloud study, brush and watercolour, on cream wove paper, signed with initials in the lower left corner, sheet 130 x 260 mm (5 1/8 x 10 1/4 in), minor surface dirt, unframed, [circa 1811-1830]
Provenance:
Private collection UK
⁂ The Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, hold five other cloud studies by Ward, possibly inspired by the sketches John Constable was beginning to produce in the 1820s. "It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale and the chief organ of sentiment" (R.B. Beckett, ed., John Constable's Correspondence VI, The Fishers Vol VI, Ipsiwch, Suffolk, pp.76-77).
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