16 plates after John Constable

John Constable RA

RA Collection: Book

Record number

19/1218

Author

Imprint

[s.l.]: [s.n.], , [n.d.]

Physical Description

[16] leaves of plates ; 43 x 30 cm.

General Note

The volume lacks a title page. Title taken from spine. The plates carry no text or dates.

Contents

1. Arundel Mill and Castle - 2 & 3. Mill near Colchester - 4. Castle Acre Priory - 5. View on the Orwell - 6. The Bathers, Hampstead - 7. Gillingham Mill - 8. Cornfield near Brighton - 9. Jacques and the Wounded Stag - 10. A Cottage in a Cornfield - 11. Willy Lott's House - 12. Hampstead Heath, Harrow in the Distance - 13. Stone Henge - 14. Flatford Mill - 15. East Bergholt Church - 16. Sir Richard Steele's Cottage

References

L. Parris, John Constable and David Lucas [exhibition catalogue] (1993); J. Constable, John Constable's correspondence, ed. R.B. Beckett, vol. IV (1966), p.314-463; A Shirley, The published mezzotints of David Lucas after John Constable, RA (1930); F. Wedmore, Constable: Lucas: with a descriptive catalogue of the prints they did between them (1904); British Museum, Constable's "English landscape scenery" (1979).

More general studies include J.C. Ivy, Constable and the critics 1802-1837 (1991); I. Fleming-Williams and I. Parris, The discovery of Constable (1984).

Binding Note

Half bound in light brown leather, with marbled-papered boards. Spine lettered in gilt: “16 Plates After Constable.”

Subject

Landscapes
Engravings
Mezzotints

Contributors

John Constable RA, source artist
David Lucas, engraver