John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

1820 July-Aug J.C., Maria and children visit Salisbury, J.C. and John Fisher
make excursions to Stonehenge, Old Sarum, the New Forest,
and Gillingham in Dorset. (JCC VI, p. 54; see also JCC II, p.
262, JCC I, pp. 189, 300 and JCC V, p. 82)
1820 Aug 4 While in Salisbury, J.C. makes excursion to the New Forest.
(JCC VI, p. 54)
1820 Aug 8 Sketchbook containing a translation of Latin lines by John
Fisher, this dated "Salisbury August 8 1820." (JCC VI, p. 54)
1820 Aug 22 Drawing at Salisbury, dated 22nd August. (JCC VI, p. 55)
1820 Aug 27 Letter from brother Abram in Flatford Mill to J.C. in London.
(JCC II, pp. 262-63 and JCC I, pp. 189-90)
1820 Aug 31 Letter from John Fisher in Salisbury to J.C. in London: "Go on
with Waterloo bridge. . . . Dolly has finished her Claude. The
Bishop don't know it from yours. . . . Paint the eclipse on the
7th." (JCC VI, p. 55)
1820 Aug "Distant view in oils of Harnham village dated August 1820 . .
. probably done from one of the upper windows of Fisher's
house." (JCC VI, p. 55)
1820 early Sept Goes to Warwickshire to stay with Henry Greswolde Lewis at
Malvern Hall and to help "in forming the landscape of the
park." J.C. may have already completed painting a panel with
the figure of a Norman ancestor; it is perhaps installed at this
time. J.C. perhaps also supervises the painting of another
panel with the Greswolde coat of arms. (JCC II, p. 263; see
also JCC I, p. 276)
1820 Sept 1 Letter from J.C. in London to John Fisher in Osmington: "My
Salisbury sketches are much liked—that in the palace
grounds—the bridges—& your house from the meadows—the
moat—&c. I am putting my river Thames on a large canvas. . .
. I shall now keep to my work. I hear something of a job of 3
portraits—I will do them if possible." (JCC VI, pp. 56-57; see
also JCC II, p. 263)
1820 Sept 3 Letter from Maria's uncle Robert Bicknell to J.C. in London.
(JCC II, p. 263)