Half-size Sketch for The Opening of Waterloo Bridge (“Whitehall Stairs, June 18, 1817”), John Constable

Half-size Sketch for The Opening of Waterloo Bridge (“Whitehall Stairs, June 18, 1817”)

Half-size Sketch for The Opening of Waterloo Bridge (“Whitehall Stairs, June 18, 1817”) (museum title)

John Constable (British) (1776-1837)

Movement: Romanticism
Date: 1829–1831
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 61 × 99.1 cm
Collection: Yale Center for British Art, United States
Rights: Public domain
Photograph: Yale Center for British Art, CC0

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