Summer Afternoon - After A Shower; from English Landscape Scenery, portfolio No. 5
David Lucas, English, 1802 - 1881
after John Constable, English, 1776 - 1837
1831, published in 1833
Mezzotint engraving on chine collé
Plate: 7 × 8 11/16 in. (17.8 × 22 cm)
Sheet: 11 5/8 × 17 1/2 in. (29.6 × 44.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935
PR.992.12.19
Publisher
John Constable, London
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower right, beneath image: Engraved by David Lucas; lower left, beneath image: Painted by John Constable, R.A.; bottom center margin: SUMMER, AFTERNOON - AFTER A SHOWER. / London Pub. by Mr. Constable. 35. Charlotte St. Fitzroy Square. 1831.
Exhibition History
A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 17-December 20, 1998.
The Artful Disposition of Shades: The Great Age of English Mezzotints, Owen Robertson Cheatham and Friends Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 19 through March 14, 2010.
Publication History
Timothy Rub, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Kelly Pask, "A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1998, listed, p.108, no. 218.
T.Barton Thurber, The Artful Disposition of Shades: The Great Age of English Mezzotints, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, Capital Offset Company Inc., 2010, checklist p. 22.
Provenance
Sir George Howland Willoughby Beaumont, 8th Baronet; by descent to Sir Francis Beaumont, Baronet; Sotheby's, London, lot 176, July 15, 1982; sold to Adolph Weil Jr.; given to present collection, 1992.
Catalogue Raisonne
A. Shirley, no. 28 [O.H. Barnard, Lucas-Constable; English Landscape Revised List of States, Print Quarterly I, no. 2, June 1984, pp. 120-123.]
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