Location

Country: Italy
City: Rome
Place: British Embassy

Born at East Bergholt in Suffolk, John Constable was the son of a miller. He claimed that the Suffolk countryside which surrounded him as a child ‘made him a painter’. In 1806, he visited the Lake District and in 1827 settled in Hampstead. Constable’s paintings ‘The Hay Wain’ and ‘View on the Stour’ were awarded the Gold Medal at the Paris Salon in 1824. The great success of these and other works exhibited in France had a significant effect on the development of the Barbizon School of landscape painters and works of the Romantic Movement. After Constable’s sudden death in 1837, a large collection of his work was bequeathed to the Victoria and Albert Museum by his daughter.

Places

England, Suffolk, Essex, River Stour, East Anglia

Subjects

rope, topography, landscape C19th, tree, dog, horse, river, man, lock (waterway device), towpath, church, tower, barge/canal boat

Materials & Techniques

mezzotint

Artist

David Lucas (1802 - 1881)
John Constable (1776 - 1837)

Title

The Lock

Date

Medium

Mezzotint

Acquisition

Purchased from F B Daniell, March 1971

Inscription

below image: [left] PAINTED BY JOHN CONSTABLE ESQ.R R.A. [right] ENGRAVED BY DAVID LUCAS [lower centre] This landscape engraved from a painting by JOHN CONSTABLE Esq.R.A [seal] is by permission and most respectively dedicated by their obedient servant Thomas Boys

GAC number

9197