1850
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Salisbury Cathedral is a 1850 by John Constable, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows Salisbury Cathedral in the mid-1800s. John Constable made it using mezzotint, a print method with rich darks. The Victoria and Albert Museum holds it in their collection. It comes from Constable’s big project called “Various Subjects of English Landscape.” He picked sketches and paintings and turned them into prints with David Lucas. Try the museum’s mezzotint collection next.
This mezzotint by John Constable, published in the series *Various Subjects of English Landscape*, depicts Salisbury Cathedral and is based on a preliminary oil sketch from 1829–30. Created under Constable’s supervision by mezzotinter David Lucas, the print translates the painter’s original work into a graphic medium, emphasizing chiaroscuro and the interplay of light and shadow. The series, issued in parts between 1830 and 1832, sought to promote English landscape and Constable’s artistic principles, though it proved commercially unsuccessful. Lucas’s technique captures the textural…
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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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