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Find out what lies behind the making of 'The Hay Wain' and its iconic status in British art.

Through paintings including George Morland’s building storm and the atmospheric light of William Mulready’s farrier shop, we look at how Constable’s contemporaries created rural scenes. William Blake’s mystic works take us into the realm of the spiritual landscape, while we experience the poetic and political landscape through contemporary poetry and prints.

We bring together sketches of the scene Constable made over twenty years before producing the finished work in his London studio.

To tell the story of 'The Hay Wain', our journey through England’s landscape at the turn of the 19th century will bring together works by artists Constable himself admired and images made by artists in response to his own painting.