DAVID LUCAS

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• Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows 1835–37 (Detail)
  
  Wedmore 50; Shirley 39 progress proof between d and e (of f); Lennox-Boyd/Stogdon seventh state (of twelve)
  
  mezzotint with etching, stipple, and roulette work on wove paper; 610 x 713 mm (24 x 28 1/16 inches)

  PROVENANCE
  Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd (d. 2012; his inventory no. P38589)

  The impression is inscribed along the left margin by Algernon Graves, the son Henry Graves, the print’s publisher: “The finest impression I have ever seen it was the copy selected by Constable to show to Hodgson and Graves ” and “A great beauty”. Another inscription in the right margin is by a different hand: “This was the specimen impression shown to the publishers when offered to them for sale by Lucas.”

• Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery, from Pictures painted by John Constable, R.A. Engraved by David Lucas 1829–32
  
  mezzotints with etching, roulette, and drypoint; printed on laid (and occasionally wove) paper; many plates retouched by the artist with brush and grey wash
  
  The set of 22, published by Constable in 1830; complete with title-page, an introduction by the artist, a poem English Landscape by James Thomson, and a list of the engravings; together with additional six plates that were posthumously published by Francis Graham Moon in 1838.

  PROVENANCE
  A presentation copy: according to an accompanying letter by Henry Reeve, the set was selected and given to his mother, Mrs. Reeve of 3 Well Walk, Hampstead, by the artist who lived nearby at 40 Well Walk; the Reeve family came from the same part of Suffolk as Constable and Mrs. Reeve’s husband, Dr. Reeve, was at Dedham Grammar School together with Constable “about the year 1793.”
  [Henry Reeve (1823–1895) was a journalist; he worked on the foreign policy desk of the Times for fifteen years and later became editor of the Edinburgh Review.]

  Frontispiece. East Bergholt. Suffolk
  Wedmore 1; Shirley 27; Barnard first state (of three)
  some retouching in the sky with brush and grey wash

  Spring
  Wedmore 2; Shirley 7; Barnard second state (of five)

  Autumnal Sun Set
  Wedmore 3; Shirley 14; Barnard first state (of four)
  foreground retouched with brush and grey wash

  Noon
  Wedmore 4; Shirley 16; Barnard first state (of four)

  River Stour Suffolk
  Wedmore 5; Shirley 19; Barnard third state (of seven)

  Summer Morning
  Wedmore 6; Shirley 26; Barnard first state (of five)
  foreground retouched with brush and grey wash

  Summer Evening
  Wedmore 7; Shirley 7; Barnard first state (of four)

  A Heath
  Wedmore 8; Shirley 23; Barnard first state (of four)

  A Dell. Helmingham Park. Suffolk
  Wedmore 9; Shirley 12; Barnard second state (of five)
  some retouching with brush and grey wash, esp. on the cow in the lower left corner

  Yarbouth. Norfolk
  Wedmore 10; Shirley 18; Barnard first state (of four)
  retouched with brush and grey wash

  A Seabeach
  Wedmore 11; Shirley 17; Barnard first state (of five)
  on wove paper; foreground retouched with brush and grey wash

  Mill Stream
  Wedmore 12; Shirley 25; Barnard first state (of five)

  A Lock on the Stour Suffolk
  Wedmore 13; Shirley 20; Barnard second state (of five)

  Old Sarum (first plate)
  Wedmore 14; Shirley 8; Barnard first state (of two)
  on wove paper; the birds in the sky at right added with brush and grey wash

  A Summerland
  Wedmore 15; Shirley 10; Barnard first state (of four)

  Stoke by Neyland, Suffolk
  Wedmore 16; Shirley 9; Barnard first state (of four)
  on wove paper; the tower of the church retouched with brush and grey wash

  A Mill
  Wedmore 17; Shirley 5; Barnard first state (of six)
  some retouching with brush and grey wash in fore- und middle-ground.

  Weymouth Bay
  Wedmore 18; Shirley 13; Barnard first state (of five)
  Retouching with brush and grey wash in the sky

  Summer Afternoon
  Wedmore 19; Shirley 28; Barnard first state (of four)
  the sky retouched with brush and grey wash

  The Glebe Farm
  Wedmore 20; Shirley 29; Barnard first state (of four)
  some retouching with brush and grey wash

  Hadleigh Castle (small plate)
  Wedmore 21; Shirley 34; Barnard first state (of four)
  clouds touched with brush and grey wash

  Hampstead Heath (vignette)
  Wedmore 22; Shirley 3; Barnard first state (of two)

  ADDITIONAL PLATES:
  Opening of Waterloo Bridge. June. 18. 1817.
  Salisbury Cathedral. From the Meadows.
  A Mill. Near Brighton.
  View on the River Stour.
  Castle Acre Priory.
  View on the Orwell. Near Ipswich.

  mezzotints, all printed on wove paper
  published by F.G. Moon, London, 1838

• Hampstead Heath (vignette) 1831
  
  progress proof from the set: Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery, from Pictures painted by John Constable
  
  mezzotint with etching, roulette, and drypoint on wove paper; 166 x 230 mm (6 9/16 x 9 inches); numbered in pencil 22 and inscribed in pencil Hampstead Heath, Middlesex
  
  Wedmore 22; Shirley 3 progress proof e (of f); Barnard before the first state (of two)
  
  Fine impression of a progress proof before all letters; the sheet with generous margins and in excellent condition.