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John Constable and David Lucas: A Unison of Feeling
Marking 250 years since the birth of John Constable, this display explores his collaboration with printmaker David Lucas in making the English Landscape print series and features Constable’s paintings alongside the prints they inspired.
Display highlights
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Stoke-by-Nayland, oil sketch, by John Constable, about 1830, England -
EAST BERGHOLT, SUFFOLK, frontispiece to 'English Landscape' by John Constable, mezzotint by David Lucas after John Constable, 1831, England -
The Rainbow, Salisbury Cathedral, proof impression corrected with opaque white watercolour and chalk, mezzotint, by David Lucas after John Constable, 1836, Britain -
Stoke-by-Nayland, drawing in sepia, by John Constable, about 1830, England -
Windmill Near Brighton, oil sketch, by John Constable, 1824 – 29, Britain -
A Mill, Near Brighton, mezzotint, by David Lucas after John Constable, 1838, England -
STOKE BY NEYLAND, SUFFOLK, Mezzotint, by David Lucas after John Constable, 1830, England -
Hampstead Heath, Branch Hill Pond, oil painting, by John Constable, 1828, Britain -
A HEATH, mezzotint, by David Lucas after John Constable, 1831, England -
Absence, mezzotint, proof print, by Sarah Gillespie, 2019, Devon, England
Features
John Constable – an introduction
John Constable – an introduction
John Constable's work transformed the genre of landscape painting and shaped the enduring popular image of the English countryside
John Constable's sketches
John Constable's sketches
Find out how and why Constable created his sketches and studies, celebrated as showing 'nature caught in the very act'
What is print?
What is print?
A print is an image created on one surface, and transferred to another - find out about the variety of printmaking processes
Header image:
(Left:) Windmill Near Brighton, oil sketch, by John Constable, 1824 – 29, Britain. Museum no. 588-1888. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London; (Right:) A Mill, Near Brighton, mezzotint, by David Lucas after John Constable, 1838, England. Museum no. E.759-2016. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London