John Constable · 1819
The White Horse
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Constable's six-foot canvas of a white tow-horse being ferried across the River Stour at Flatford, with a thatched cottage and billowing clouds beyond. The Frick Collection, New York.
Up to 23.2 × 16 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of The White Horse
The White Horse was completed in 1819 and exhibited at the Royal Academy that year. It was the first of Constable's six 'six-footers' of scenes on the River Stour, a series that includes The Hay Wain. The subject is a tow-horse being ferried across the river at Flatford, just below the lock, where the towpath switches banks. It drew more attention than any of his earlier works, largely because of its large size for such a quiet subject.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
John Constable
John Constable was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area on the borderland of Suffolk and north Essex surrounding his home – now known as "Constable Country" – which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling".
All John Constable prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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