A Mill, from English Landscape
David Lucas
1830
- Medium
- Mezzotint on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 14.2 × 21.3 cm (5 5/8 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 17.5 × 24.2 cm (6 15/16 × 9 9/16 in.); Secondary support: 30 × 38.8 cm (11 13/16 × 15 5/16 in.)
- Genre
- mezzotint
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
mezzotintprintprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
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.
