1855
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
SALISBURY CATHEDRAL. FROM THE MEADOWS is a 1855 by John Constable, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
John Constable made this print in 1855. It shows Salisbury Cathedral in a quiet landscape. The print is part of an important series of mezzotints. The Victoria and Albert Museum says this series is one of the best ever published. The prints were based on Constable’s own oil sketches and paintings. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works by Constable.
This mezzotint print reproduces John Constable’s painting *Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows*, part of the series *Various Subjects of English Landscape*, published in multiple editions between 1830 and 1832 with mezzotints by David Lucas. After Constable’s death in 1837, additional plates were completed and new ones produced, expanding the series to 40 prints in a red-bound volume with descriptive text. The image reflects Constable’s focus on light and shadow, translating his oil sketches and paintings into mezzotint through Lucas’s skilled engraving techniques. The project, intended to…
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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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