1687543242000 1687510654000 Standard Record object-110009044 1747159857087 1699447890000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110009044 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009044 dcdca3a3-7795-3f32-9122-870c14e34403 5 person reference agent-29619 adlib-agent-29619 ef67fb8d-9a82-3301-9947-b8d0526effb3 Constable, John person reference agent-195165 adlib-agent-195165 583e9953-7416-3f7c-89f8-e42667e8f5d3 Phillips, Henry content description This introduction to 'English Landscape' was prepared by Henry Phillips, the horticulturist from Brighton. In his explanatory notes (see Constable/EL/6/2), R.B. Beckett refers to John Constable's letter to David Lucas dated 28 march 1832 (see Constable/EL/1/1/82). Constable wrote: ''Mr Phillips is writing me an introductory letter which as far as it goes I do not like at all. Still I shall let him do it - I can overhaul it.'' Henry Phillips and John Constable met in Brighton in 1824. The botanist shared information about flowers with the painter. Phillips' writings on the history of plants were described by Constable as ''instructive and entertaining, suitable for children of all ages''. (Coats, Alice M. “A Forgotten Gardener: Henry Phillips, 1779-1840.” The Garden History Society Newsletter, no. 14 (1971): 2–4). The 'English Landscape' or 'Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery' was a project undertaken by John Constable and the printmaker, David Lucas. It comprised of twenty-two mezzotints, and was issued between June 1830 and July 1832. A second edition was also prepared alongside letterpress text. TRANSCRIPT: <RECTO> [By Henry Phillips] English Landscape To the Patrons and Admirers of the Fine Arts. John Constable R.A. has the honour to announce that he has this day published a work consisting of twenty two Engravings from his own paintings, illustrative of pure English Landscape. The design of this work is to present a collection of landscapes in a more portable form, and at a [less?] charge than paintings can be procured for, and at the same time to impress on the mind of the Student and Connoisseur that if truth to nature be closely copied we need not seek foreign shores to produce what is sublime, beautiful or picturesque in Landscape. Regardless of the too confined rules of the art Mr. Constable has even studied to throw into his pictures the [ ] of colour so peculiar to English scenery, and which has been as successfully preserved by the Engraver of this work as the art will permit by the effect of light and shade only. Copies of the work may be seen at - - Pall Mall East and at the Mr. Constable’s Gallery of Paintings. No. 35 Charlotte Street Fitzroy Square. <VERSO> ----------------------------------Time has mouldered into beauty many a tower which when frowned with all its battlements was only terrible’’ ---- Constable/EL/3/2/MS37-1953 1 accession number Constable/EL/3/2/MS37-1953 110009044 priref 110009044 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009044 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009044 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference agent-195165 adlib-agent-195165 583e9953-7416-3f7c-89f8-e42667e8f5d3 Phillips, Henry Length in 13 Width in 8.3 MS Introduction to 'English Landscape' object OBJECT