1855
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
OLD SARUM. "HERE WE HAVE NO CONTINUING CITY." ST. PAUL is a 1855 by John Constable, a Impressionism work, depicting Storm, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows an English landscape in stormy weather. John Constable made it late in life. It’s a mezzotint, a kind of print that gives rich darks and soft tones. Constable didn’t carve the plate himself. He supervised another artist, David Lucas, who turned his oil sketches into prints. That series became one of the most respected landscape print sets ever. Look up the artist next.
This mezzotint, published posthumously in a volume with a red binding containing forty plates and accompanying text, depicts a landscape scene from one of John Constable’s works. Created by David Lucas under Constable’s supervision, the print is part of the series *Various Subjects of English Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery*, which aimed to showcase England’s scenery through mezzotint reproductions of Constable’s paintings. The series, initially published between 1830 and 1832 with later reprints, sought to emphasize the interplay of light and shadow in landscape art.
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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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