Summer Afternoon - After A Shower; from English Landscape Scenery, portfolio No. 5
David Lucas, English, 1802 - 1881, after John Constable, English, 1776 - 1837
1831, published in 1833
Mezzotint engraving on chine collé
Plate: 7 × 8 11/16 in. (17.8 × 22 cm)
Sheet: 11 5/8 × 17 1/2 in. (29.6 × 44.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935
PR.992.12.19
Publisher
John Constable, London
Geography/Culture
Europe, Great Britain
Period
19th century
Object Name
Classification
Not on view
Inscription
Inscribed, in plate, lower right, beneath image: Engraved by David Lucas; lower left, beneath image: Painted by John Constable, R.A.; bottom center margin: SUMMER, AFTERNOON - AFTER A SHOWER. / London Pub. by Mr. Constable. 35. Charlotte St. Fitzroy Square. 1831.
Exhibition History
The Artful Disposition of Shades: The Great Age of English Mezzotints, Owen Robertson Cheatham and Friends Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 19 through March 14, 2010.
A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 17-December 20, 1998.
Publication History
Timothy Rub, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Kelly Pask, "A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1998, listed, p.108, no. 218.
T.Barton Thurber, The Artful Disposition of Shades: The Great Age of English Mezzotints, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, Capital Offset Company Inc., 2010, checklist p. 22.
Provenance
Sir George Howland Willoughby Beaumont, 8th Baronet; by descent to Sir Francis Beaumont, Baronet; Sotheby's, London, lot 176, July 15, 1982; sold to Adolph Weil Jr.; given to present collection, 1992.
Catalogue Raisonne
A. Shirley, no. 28 [O.H. Barnard, Lucas-Constable; English Landscape Revised List of States, Print Quarterly I, no. 2, June 1984, pp. 120-123.]
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