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David Lucas

A Mill, from English Landscape

1830
Mezzotint on off-white wove paper
14.2 × 21.3 cm (5.6 × 8.4 in)

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A talented mezzotint engraver, David Lucas devoted his career to reproducing the landscape paintings of John Constable. In the mezzotint process, the entire plate is roughened to create a dark field and then burnished to bring out highlights. Done in monochrome, Lucas’s prints masterfully emphasize the motion and play of light in Constable’s visions of the English landscape.

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