1855
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
VIEW ON THE ORWELL. NEAR IPSWICH is a 1855 by John Constable, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
John Constable made a print of the Orwell river near Ipswich in 1855. The work is a mezzotint, a kind of print that uses dark and light tones to show depth. This print comes from one of the biggest series of mezzotints ever published. Constable picked his own oil sketches and paintings to turn into prints. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum next.
This mezzotint by John Constable, published posthumously, is part of *Various Subjects of English Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery*, a series of 22 prints engraved by David Lucas between 1830 and 1832. Created late in Constable’s career, the work translates his oil sketches and paintings into mezzotint, emphasizing chiaroscuro and the interplay of light and shadow in the English landscape. The print appears in a later volume with a red binding, containing 40 plates accompanied by descriptive text.
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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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