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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. \n\nTRANSCRIPT:\n\nProspectus\nof Mr. Constable\u2019s English Landscape\n\nThis work which is just completed consists of twenty two prints in Mezzotinto, or \u2018\u2019Chiar oscuro\u2019\u2019 , varying in size from eight to twelve inches in length. \n\nEngraved from pictures painted by\nJohn Constable Esq. R.A.\nBy David Lucas\n---\nEnglish Landscape\n---\n\u2018\u2019Rura mihi et rigui placeant in vallibus amnes\nFlumina amemm sylvasque inglorious.\u2019\u2019\n \t\t\t\t\tVirgil\n-----\n[En?]: Translation\u2019\u2019\n\tThe present specimens collection of subjects of English Landscape in \u2018\u2019chiaro scuro\u2019\u2019 after much pains and no inconsiderable expense bestowed upon them it are is at length completed; and [^] are now is offered to the notice of the world \u2013 not without some anxiety as to the kind of reception they will experience which it may meet with. The very favourable [?] in which they have been [?] opinion [^] however based upon them by professional and other intelligent friends [?] however both encouraged this publication at the same time that it has also served to lessen this anxiety in no small degree. \n\tThe object with which this author has had in view is to display the [?] the \u2018\u2019Chiaro scuro of Nature\u2019\u2019; [?] to trace some of its endless variation and beauties and varieties; to point out its vast influence upon Natural Landscape and to show its power and use as a medium of expression [?] \u2013 satisfied that these qualities attributes [^] of it are to be met with in perhaps greater perfection here in this than any other country \u2013 and also that the features of this country itself [^] abundantly contain all that is so eagerly sought under foreign skies \u2013 he would willingly [?] and contribute lend his aid towards increasing the [^] love & consequent study and love of the beauties which lie beneath our own.\n[^] It would be most gratifying to him if He can [?] could flatter himself that his work [???] humble efforts in art had in any [?] [?] so to raise the estimation of English Scenery as to place it on the same footing [?] in respect to Landscape as that on which it has long stood with with regard to Poetry. Yet he is convinced that it will [^] eventually be [?] as acknowledged to be as capable of affording every material requisite for filling the canvas of the Landscape Painter as it has been found proved to be [?] supplying the finest imagery of [???] Poets to our best Descriptive Poets.\t\nIt is surely to be regretted that the scenes with which we are surrounded - abounding as they do in Grandeur \u2013 and every description of pastoral beauty \u2013 [endeared] to us as they are by the most powerful [?] should be either overlooked - or else rejected as unsuited to the Classical Style \u2013 Why should not subjects purely English be made the vehicle of General Landscapes, and when embodied by its highest principles, be so rendered as to become legitimate & at the same time original and consequently Classical Art.\n\tIn Art as in Literature there are two modes by which men arrive at distinction. In the one the student artist by close study of what others have accomplished -  [and by [?] a & [?] of the crowd turned up by others) imitates, selects , and combines [^] [???] these various beauties \u2013 the other \u2018\u2019scoring delights\u2019\u2019 boldly seeks excellence at the [?] its primitive source Nature \u2013 the one contribute Imitative or at best or eclectic \u2013 the other [?] adding to the  art \u2013 becomes original art \u2013 is received by \/posterity as a benefactor\/ - the results of the one are easily recognised and at once estimated \u2013 the advance of the other must necessarily (consequently) be slow \u2013 it is (being) the few only who are able to judge of immature excellence \u2013 original feeling \u2013 or genuine study \u2013 but [?] it is."}]},"identifier":[{"accession_number":"Constable\/EL\/3\/2\/MS38-1953","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"Constable\/EL\/3\/2\/MS38-1953"},{"priref":"110009046","type":"priref","value":"110009046"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110009046","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110009046"}],"institutions":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"lifecycle":{"creation":[{"maker":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-29619","uid":"adlib-agent-29619","uuid":"ef67fb8d-9a82-3301-9947-b8d0526effb3"},"summary_title":"Constable, John"}]}]},"measurements":{"dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","units":"in","value":"13.1"},{"dimension":"Width","units":"in","value":"8.4"}]},"summary_title":"MS Prospectus for 'English Landscape'","title":[{"value":"MS Prospectus for 'English Landscape'"}],"type":{"base":"object","type":"OBJECT"}}