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John Constable: Toward a Complete Chronology. - Reed College

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1823 June 30 Letter from <strong>John</strong> Fisher in Gillingham to J.C. in London. (JCC<br />

VI, p. 120)<br />

1823 June Letter from Joseph Bonomi in Rome to J.C. in London,<br />

postmarked "JU 1823". (JC FDC, p. 185)<br />

1823 July 3 Letter from J.C. in London to <strong>John</strong> Fisher in Gillingham: "I am<br />

anxious to come to you this year—& shall, and after this<br />

month, when I shall have got my jobs a little under. I leave it<br />

to you to name any week or ten days, in August or Sepr. . . . I<br />

have been a day or two ar Southgate at Judkins." (JCC VI, pp.<br />

121-22; see also JCC II, p. 280 and JCC IV, p. 290)<br />

1823 July 5 Letter from <strong>John</strong> Fisher in Gillingham to J.C. in London: "If<br />

you have one of your coast Windmills hanging up on your wall<br />

framed, I wish you would put it up with the fruit peice. . . . I<br />

will work hard & get finished by the 18th or 20th of August:<br />

about which time I will expect you." (JCC VI, pp. 122-23)<br />

1823 before July 10 Works on a view of the dell in Helmington Park. (JCC IV,<br />

p. 141; see also JCC VI, p. 25)<br />

1823 July 10 Letter (postmarked 10th July) from J.C. in London to <strong>John</strong><br />

Fisher in Gillingham: "It has cost me some trouble to make<br />

good the backgrounds at the edge, I speak of, but [the<br />

picture (by G. de Vris)] is well worth recovering, as the want<br />

of an efficient feild crowded the composition. . . . Should<br />

Tinney & I agree it will enable me to paint another large<br />

picture for the Exhibition. . . . Sir G. Beaumont has just left<br />

me. . . . He is pleased with a large wood I have just toned."<br />

(JCC VI, pp. 124-25; see also JCC IV, pp. 67, 218 and JC:<br />

FDC, p. 145)<br />

1823 Aug 3 Letter (mistakenly dated 1822 by Leslie) from Bishop Fisher<br />

in Malmesbury to J.C. in London: "My daughter Elizabeth . . .<br />

wishes to have in her house a recollection of Salisbury; I<br />

mean, therefore, to give her a picture, and I must beg of you<br />

either to finish the first sketch of my picture, or to make a<br />

copy of the small size. I wish to have a more serene sky."<br />

(JCC VI, p. 125)

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