1850
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Hampstead Heath is a 1850 by John Constable, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
John Constable made this print of Hampstead Heath late in his life. It’s a landscape, one of 22 in a series he guided himself. The series got called “Various Subjects of English Landscape.” Constable picked scenes from his own oil sketches and paintings to turn into prints. Check out more landscapes by John Constable at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
This mezzotint by John Constable, printed by David Lucas, depicts Branch Hill Pond on Hampstead Heath, featuring the Salt Box house on the right. Part of the series *Various Subjects of English Landscape*, the work emphasizes nature’s interplay of light and shadow through Constable’s guidance and Lucas’s skilled translation of the painter’s techniques. The print, revised after Constable’s death, reflects his effort to promote English scenery and his artistic principles. Though commercially unsuccessful, the collaboration produced a significant example of mezzotint engraving.
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John Constable (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition.
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