Artworks

Constable's English Landscape Scenery comprises 22 of Constable's paintings translated into the tonal black and white of mezzotint by the printmaker David Lucas.  It was published in five parts from 1830-2 and following its completion, Lucas approached Constable to work on a series of larger more ambitious mezzotints.

The Cornfield was published in 1834 by F G Moon, London alongside a print of Constable's The Lock.  The pair were critically and financially a success, and the enhanced detail afforded by the larger plate is clear.  Constable's treatment of individual, damaged trees in his art marked a break with earlier landscape painting in which trees were often just generic or indicative.