John Constable "English Landscape Scenery" mezzotint engraved by David Lucas (1855)

A Cottage in a Cornfield	Willy Lot's House $250	Spring $150
View on the Orwell $200	A Mill $225	Autumnal Sun Set (a view near East Bergholdt) $175
Summer Morning (Dedham Vale) $225	Summer Afternoon... After a Shower $225	Summer Evening (Field near East Bergholdt) $225
A Sea Beach (near Brighton) $200	Yarmouth, Norfolk $200	Hadleigh Castle, near the Nore $150
View on the River Stour $300	A Dell, Helmington Park, Suffolk $150	Cornfields near Brighton $165
Weymouth Bay, Dorsetshire $125	Old Sarum	Sir Richard Steele's Cottage
Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk $175	Noon	A Summerland $200
Castle Acre Priory	The Glebe Farm	Hampstead Heath $225
East Bergholdt (Garden view of the house in which Constable was born) $125	A Lock on the Stour, Suffolk $150	A Heath (Hampstead) $150
Salisbury Cathedral	Opening of Waterloo Bridge $200	Jacques and the Wounded Stag $200
	Porch of the Church at East Bergholt, Suffolk $150 (see enlargement)
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John Constable (1776–1836). In the late 1820s Constable became interested in publishing prints of his paintings, which had been critically acclaimed but were less commercially popular. He hoped to change this by issuing printed reproductions destined for a wider audience. Although advised to use lithography, he felt that mezzotint could be better adapted to simulate his painterly effects. He found an unknown but talented mezzotint engraver, David Lucas, and in 1829 they began work on a series of mezzotints, which would be issued as Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery. Despite the publication of two separate editions the work was not a commercial success for Constable, mainly because his approach to nature was not appreciated until many years later. Yet in technical terms the mezzotints are a resounding success, and capture many of Constable's atmospheric effects and painterly techniques.