1855
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
OPENING OF WATERLOO BRIDGE is a 1855 by John Constable, a Impressionism work, depicting Allahabad, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print is called OPENING OF WATERLOO BRIDGE. It was created by John Constable in 1855. The print is part of a series of mezzotints based on Constable's oil sketches and paintings, which is interesting because it shows how his work was shared with others after his death. You can learn more about this style by looking at the movement: Realism.
This mezzotint reproduces John Constable’s painting of the ceremonial opening of Waterloo Bridge in 1817, part of the series Various Subjects of English Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery, issued in multiple parts between 1830 and 1832 and later revised. Executed by David Lucas under Constable’s close direction, the print translates the painter’s luminous handling of light and shadow into mezzotint, using rich tonal contrasts to convey the scene’s atmospheric effects. The volume in which this print appears contains forty plates accompanied by descriptive text, bound in red.
Read the full account in the museum source.
John Constable (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition.
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