1855
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
WEYMOUTH BAY, DORSETSHIRE is a 1855 by John Constable, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
John Constable made this print in 1855. It shows a view of Weymouth Bay in Dorset. The print is part of an important series of mezzotints. Constable didn’t cut the plates himself. He guided a specialist, David Lucas, who turned his paintings into prints. This series helped spread Constable’s landscape style. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more of these prints.
This mezzotint print, *Weymouth Bay, Dorsetshire*, is part of *Various Subjects of English Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery*, a series of 22 landscape subjects supervised by John Constable and engraved by David Lucas between 1830 and 1832. The work translates Constable’s original oil sketches and paintings into mezzotint, emphasizing chiaroscuro and the interplay of light and shadow in the English countryside. After Constable’s death in 1837, additional prints were completed and published, though the series did not achieve commercial success during his lifetime. Lucas’s engraving…
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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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