Full Description
From 1829 until his death, Constable devoted an increasing amount of time, energy and his own money to the production of prints after his work. Intended as the epitome of his naturalistic art, English Landscape brought together 22 images from the whole span of his career, reimagined with all the drama and delicacy possible with mezzotint.
In David Lucas, Constable found a collaborator capable of responding to his work with an unprecedented range of tonal expression, and an endlessly patient colleague who could cope with Constable's extreme anxiety and mood swings.
The result, though not a commercial success at the time, is widely acknowledged as one of the summits of English landscape art, and of the art of the mezzotint.
This edition includes Constable's introduction, his most sustained explanation of his aims as a painter and the revolution he effected in landscape art.
Contents
Table of contents
introduction
1: Spring
2: Autumnal sun set
3: Noon
4: River Stour, Suffolk
5: Summer morning
6: Summer evening
7: A Dell, Helmingham Park, Suffolk
8: A Heath
9: Yarmouth, Norfolk
10: A Seabeach
11: Mill Stream
12: A Lock on the Stour, Suffolk
13: Old Sarum
14: A Summerland
15: Stoke by Neyland, Suffolk
16: A Mill
17: Weymouth Bay, Dorsetshire
18: Summer afternoon - after a shower
19: The Glebe Farm
20: Hadleigh Castle near the Nore
21: Hampstead Heath, Middlesex
