The family windmill at Bergholt Heath
1814
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1814
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
This is a Romantic landscape drawing from around 1814. It shows a windmill on Bergholt Heath. The artist, John Fisher, copied a sketch by John Constable dated a few months earlier. Fisher was a bishop who admired Constable’s work. Artists often swapped drawings to practice or study. Fisher copied this one during a visit to East Bergholt. Look up technique: cross-hatching.
