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The image displays a landscape from a slightly elevated perspective. The horizon line is in the distance where the land meets the sky. Along the horizon, there are a few trees and a small cluster of buildings. The artistic technique employed consists of fine, detailed brushstrokes, characteristic of etching. The color palette is a monochrome range of blacks, whites, and grays. Closest to us, there is a horse-drawn cart with a person steering it, and a dog nearby, on a winding path leading into rolling hills. The path meanders towards the distance where clusters of trees and cultivated land can be seen. Above, the sky is vast and filled with billowing clouds, through which a few birds are soaring.
National Gallery of Art · Print
A Heath
David Lucas after John Constable
- Date
- 1830/1831
- Medium
- mezzotint in black on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 17.6 x 22 cm (6 15/16 x 8 11/16 in.) sheet: 27.6 x 42.7 cm (10 7/8 x 16 13/16 in.)
- Classification
- Accession number
- 1994.60.42
- Credit line
- Gift of Ruth B. Benedict
- Time span
- 1826 to 1850
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- British
- Landscape
- United Kingdom
- landscape
- Skyscape
- mezzotint
Provenance
Dr. Ruth B. Benedict (1913-1993), Washington; bequest to NGA, 1994.
Inscription
probably by later hand, lower right in graphite: A Heath Hampstead; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 18/18/; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: w/f; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 8 E proof; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 7657 (circled)
NGA object ID 79387. 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.