
John Constable RA, Cloud Study, Hampstead, Tree at Right, 11 September 1821.
Part of the RA CollectionOil on paper laid on board, red ground. 241 mm x 299 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photographer: John Hammond.
Clouds
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Alexander Cozens, Lake Albano, near Rome, 1750-1786.
Part of the RA Collectionetching. 276 mm x 376 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photographer: Prudence Cuming Associates Limited.
Alexander Cozens
Lake Albano, near Rome , 1750-1786

John Constable RA, Cloud Study, Hampstead, Tree at Right, 11 September 1821.
Part of the RA CollectionOil on paper laid on board, red ground. 241 mm x 299 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photographer: John Hammond.
John Constable RA
Cloud Study, Hampstead, Tree at Right , 11 September 1821

John Constable, Rainstorm over the Sea, c.1824-28.
Photograph by John Hammond.
John Constable
Rainstorm over the Sea , c.1824-28

J.M.W. Turner RA, The Fifth Plague of Egypt, 10 June 1808.
Part of the RA CollectionEtching and mezzotint. 180 mm x 260 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
J.M.W. Turner RA
The Fifth Plague of Egypt , 10 June 1808

William Henry Hunt, A passing shower at sea, by 1864.
Part of the RA Collectionpencil on cream wove paper. 91 mm x 72 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
William Henry Hunt
A passing shower at sea , by 1864

Cornelius Varley, Mountainous landscape, by 1873 [probably ca. 1805].
Part of the RA Collectionpencil and watercolour on off-white laid paper. 94 mm x 145 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Cornelius Varley
Mountainous landscape , by 1873 [probably ca. 1805]

John Martin, Satan viewing the Ascent to Heaven, 1824.
Part of the RA CollectionMezzotint on steel. 196 mm x 153 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
John Martin

Peter Graham RA, Homewards, 1882.
Part of the RA CollectionOil on canvas. 750 mm x 1069 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photographer: John Hammond.
Peter Graham RA
Homewards , 1882

Bertram Priestman RA, Near Wareham, Dorset, 1923.
Part of the RA CollectionOil on canvas. 645 mm x 775 mm. © . © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photographer: John Hammond.
Bertram Priestman RA
Near Wareham, Dorset , 1923

Sir George Clausen RA, Cloud study.
Part of the RA CollectionWatercolour on wove paper. 179 mm x 257 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Sir George Clausen RA
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