# Constable's "The Cornfield": A Bicentenary Harvesting

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Malcolm Andrews
- Year: 2026
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Earth and environment, History, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/constable-200)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Constable’s painting The Cornfield celebrates its bicentenary in 2026. How has it aged? This is a landscape that has acquired iconic status – a marker of national identity -- as a representation of typically English countryside. How has that Englishness been constituted in the painting? And how does The Cornfield (a view of a partly working landscape) speak to current ideas about relationships and tensions between the natural world and the human presence, especially in our age of environmental anxieties?

## Lectures

1. [Constable's "The Cornfield": A Bicentenary Harvesting](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/constable-200/e8515489b03a) (Audio)