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The image shows a landscape scene with a frontal view of a dense forest. A wooden bridge spans across a narrow ravine or creek. The painting features vigorous and textural brushstrokes with dark tones creating a shadowy effect. The color palette includes deep blacks, dark browns, and occasional highlights of light filtering through the canopy. In the distance, lighter areas suggest a path leading further into the woods, surrounded by trees and undergrowth.
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The image shows a landscape scene with a frontal view of a dense forest. A wooden bridge spans across a narrow ravine or creek. The painting features vigorous and textural brushstrokes with dark tones creating a shadowy effect. The color palette includes deep blacks, dark browns, and occasional highlights of light filtering through the canopy. In the distance, lighter areas suggest a path leading further into the woods, surrounded by trees and undergrowth.

National Gallery of Art · Print

A Dell at Helmingham Park, Suffolk

David Lucas after John Constable

Date
1830
Medium
mezzotint on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 17.8 x 22.2 cm (7 x 8 3/4 in.) sheet: 26 x 31 cm (10 1/4 x 12 3/16 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2001.118.21
Credit line
Paul Mellon Fund
Time span
1826 to 1850
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Portfolio and series

Series
English Landscape

Subjects and terms

  • British
  • Bridge
  • Tree
  • mezzotint
  • Forest
  • Nature
Provenance

Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2001 by NGA.

NGA object ID 119643. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.