Update: Further Constable ‘Summerland’ proofs
David Lucas after John Constable,
The Summerland, 1829
Mezzotint, printed in black ink on heavyweight, stiff, off-white [oatmeal], textured, wove rag paper
Image, 150 x 226 mm, on plate 175 x 251, on sheet cut to 215 x 290 mm
Inscribed in plate, lower right [indistinct] ‘1829 D Lucas’, and inscribed in graphite top right ‘3’, in centre of lower margin, partly trimmed, ‘7’, and on verso, towards right, ‘1141’.
At the time of original publication I had not received permission to reproduce the superb sequence of proofs at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. This was kindly granted some time ago, so I have taken this occasion to add images to the Fitzwilliam references throughout the whole series of articles.
David Lucas after John Constable,
A Summerland, (1829) 1855
Mezzotint, printed in black ink on smooth-surfaced, light card
Image, 150 x 226 mm, on plate 178 x 252, on sheet 300 x 441 mm
Inscribed in graphite in centre of lower margin, ‘(1)’ and on verso, towards right, ‘276/56’; ‘K/-/-‘.
Chiswick Auctions, London, 27 June 2019, lot 372
The Chiswick auctions lot turned out to be more interesting than I had originally suspected. It included another ‘Summerland’ print, described as ‘a copy of the published state’, together with an impression of a different ‘English Landscape Scenery’ subject,
David Lucas after John Constable,
Willy Lott’s House, 1829 (1845)
Mezzotint, printed in black ink on textured, off-white, laid rag paper watermarked ‘F . D’
Image, 172 x 157 mm (to keyline), on plate 253 x 186, on sheet 413 x 305 (max)
Inscribed in ink lower right ‘l/A.C’, and in ink on verso ‘L.C./not/A.C [within brackets].
Chiswick Auctions, London, 27 June 2019, lot 372
‘Willy Lott’s House, mezzotint, proof before title, from ‘A New Series of Engravings, illustrative of English Landscape, from pictures of John Constable R.A.’, marked & spotted, plate 255 x 185 mm, 1845’. Both of these warrant more extended contextualisation.
TO BE CONTINUED
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