
Works in Focus |
Detail 3:
St Martin-in-the- Fields, where Constable and Maria Bicknell were married on 2 October 1816, eight months or so before the events depicted here |
Detail 4 (left):
Fife House, then home of the Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool Detail 5 (below): Garden of Grantham House
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Detail 6:
The Prince Regent and his entourage on the quay of Whitehall Stairs, which gave access to the river from Whitehall |
Detail 9:
Somerset House, then home of the Royal Academy, where Constable’s painting was first exhibited |
Detail 11:
Shot Tower (left) built about 1789 for the manufacture of lead shot Shot Tower (right) built 1826 (and therefore making an anachronistic appearance here); adapted to serve as a lighthouse and radio beacon for the 1951 Festival of Britain, it was demolished for the building of the Queen Elizabeth Hall in the 1960s |