A Heath

1830/1831

David Lucas after John Constable

Associated Names
David Lucas

Artist, British, 1802 - 1881

John Constable

Artist After, British, 1776 - 1837

The image displays a landscape from a slightly elevated perspective. The horizon line is in the distance where the land meets the sky. Along the horizon, there are a few trees and a small cluster of buildings. The artistic technique employed consists of fine, detailed brushstrokes, characteristic of etching. The color palette is a monochrome range of blacks, whites, and grays. Closest to us, there is a horse-drawn cart with a person steering it, and a dog nearby, on a winding path leading into rolling hills. The path meanders towards the distance where clusters of trees and cultivated land can be seen. Above, the sky is vast and filled with billowing clouds, through which a few birds are soaring.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth B. Benedict

  • Dimensions

    plate: 17.6 x 22 cm (6 15/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 27.6 x 42.7 cm (10 7/8 x 16 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1994.60.42

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Shirley 1930, no. 23, State i-m/m (proof)


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. Ruth B. Benedict (1913-1993), Washington; bequest to NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 59.

Bibliography

1930

  • Shirley, Andrew. The Published Mezzotints of David Lucas after John Constable, R.A.. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1930.

1994

  • A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: no. 59.

Inscriptions

probably by later hand, lower right in graphite: A Heath Hampstead; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 18/18/; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: w/f; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 8 E proof; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 7657 (circled)

Wikidata ID

Q75122209

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