Sept. 6 th, 1822, looking S. E. — 12 to 1 o'clock, fresh and bright, between showers — much the look of rain all the morning, but very fine and grand all the afternoon and evening.

Inscription a the back of a cloud study (6 September 1822), as quoted in Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams, Constable (Tate Gallery Publications, London, 1993), p. 233