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'Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows'   John Constable   1831

Virtue's black & white version Original colour version 
John Constable, 'Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows' - black and white version.

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[Constable] had a true, almost a pantheistic, love of cornfields and trees... there is this palpable love of the subject matter...
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