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David Lucas Constable Mezzotint The Glebe Farm 1855

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Make/Author/Artist: David Lucas Constable
Edition/ Material: 1855

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David Lucas (1802-1881) worked with John Constable (1776-1836) to produce a magnificent series of English landscape prints. This work was published in 1855.

Image size 6 x 8.75 inches on full sheet size 11.5 x 17 inches. In very good condition.

The mezzotint technique was perfectly suited for Constables work as it allows the etcher produce a vivid range of light and dark values. Mezzotint is also the most demanding of all etching methods, as the etcher works to darken the plate first with a rocker, and then scrapes out the highlights.

Paintings and works of art were often etched in order to create an acceptable reproduction to bind in a book and share with the global art market, either indicating a work for sale or an up and coming artist. The etching we offer is an original vintage print - not a modern reproduction.

(Etching is the process of using strong acid to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal . As an intaglio method of printmaking it is, along with engraving, the most important technique for old master prints, and remains widely used today)