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John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

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1822 Nov 12 Letter from <strong>John</strong> Fisher in Salisbury to J.C. in London: "I<br />

recommend you to get on with the Bishops picture. . . . Send<br />

Dodsworth your own copy of Teniers & make yourself<br />

another at your leisure." (JCC VI, pp. 102-04)<br />

1822 Nov 30 Letter from <strong>John</strong> Fisher in Salisbury to J.C. in London: "The<br />

palace party do nothing but talk of your picture that is<br />

coming. Put in some niggle to please the good people. . . .<br />

Dodsworth desires me to thank you for the Teniers: and I<br />

thank you for returning so punctually the Osmington coast &<br />

my little Salisbury Cathedral." (JCC VI, pp. 104-05; see also<br />

JC: FDC, p. 118)<br />

1822 Nov Possibly pays a brief visit to the seaside. (JCC II, p. 278)<br />

1822 Dec 6 Letter from J.C. in London to <strong>John</strong> Fisher in Salisbury:<br />

"Dodsworth may have his picture. . . . I have grimed it down<br />

with slime & soot—as he is a connoisseur and of course<br />

prefers filth & dirt, to freshness & beauty. . . . The Cathedral<br />

is advancing. . . . My altarpeice, for the chapel at<br />

Manningtree, is gone by—the man would not have it." (JCC<br />

VI, pp. 105-07; see also JCD, p. 60 and JCC II, p. 278)<br />

1822 end of year Letter (undated but probably written about this time) to J.C.<br />

from Sir George Fisher, brother of Bishop Fisher, asking J.C.<br />

to postpone his visit. (JCC VI, pp. 107-08)<br />

pre-1822 Note (undated but must before 1822) from Bishop Fisher in<br />

London to J.C. in London: "Can my Daughter see you this<br />

day?" (JCC VI, p. 40)<br />

1822 Eight of J.C.'s pen, wash and pencil copies (show fragments<br />

of watermark of 1822) of numbers 1-15 of Alexander<br />

Cozen's sixteen etchings in The Various Species of<br />

Composition of Landscape, in Nature. (JC: FDC, p. 29)<br />

1823 Sends The Bridge and Yarmouth Jetty, dated 1822, to<br />

beg. of year British Institution, fails to sell either. (JCC II, p. 279)<br />

1823 Jan 7 Letter from Joseph Bonomi in Rome to J.C. in London. (JC:<br />

FDC, p. 184)

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