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Either this or the foregoing would be that to which Constable refers in his letter to Lucas of 23 May 1832: ''I want to read my fly letter to you - I staid all day yesterday at Hampstead to write it.''\n\nThe '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\n[?]\nProspectus\nof Mr Constable\u2019s English Landscape\n_______\n\t\tThis work which is just published consists of twenty two prints\nvarying in sizes. [strikethrough] from eight to twelve [?] in length.\n______\nEngraved in Mezzotints from pictures painted by \nJohn Constable Esq. R.A.\nby\nDavid Lucas\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\tThe present collection of subjects of (in) English Landscape after much pains and considerable expense bestowed upon [strikethrough] it is at length completed; and is offered to the notice of the world - not without anxiety as to the kind of reception it may meet with. The very favourable opinion however based upon it by professional and other intelligent friends encouraged the its publication at the same time that it [^] has encouraged its publication has also served to lessen this anxiety in no small degree. \n\tThe object which theis author has had in view is [?] to display the \u2018\u2019Chiar\u2019oscuro of Nature\u2019\u2019 \u2013 to trace some of its endless beauties and varieties to point out its vast influence upon \u2018\u2019Natural Landscape\u2019\u2019;- and to show its [^] use & power and use as a medium of expression.\n\tSatisfied that these attributes of it are to be met with in perhaps greater perfection in this than in any other country, and also that the features of this country itself abundantly certain are that is [^] so [?] sought under foreign skies. He would willingly lend his aid towards increasing the love and consequent study of the beauties which lie beneath our own.\n\tIt would be most gratifying to himself he could flatter himself that his humble efforts in art had should in any degree [tended?] so to raise the [?] of to place English Scenery as to place it on the same footing in respect to Landscape as that on which it has long stood with regard to Poetry. Yet He is [^] however convinced that it will eventually be acknowledged to be as capable of affording every material requisite for filling the canvas of the \u2018\u2019Landscape Painter\u2019\u2019 as it has been proved to be of supplying the finest imagery to our best descriptive Poets.\n\tIt surely is to be regretted that the scenes with which we are surrounded \u2013 abounding as they do in Grandeur \u2013 and every description of pastoral beauty \u2013 [endeared] [^] as they are to us as they are by the most powerful [?] should be either overlooked or else rejected as unsuited to the Classical Style \u2013 [^] But Why should not subjects purely English be made the vehicle of General Landscape? \u2013 and ; when embodied by its highest principles, be so rendered as to become legitimate \u2013 and at the same time original \u2013 and consequently Classical Art.\n\tIn Art, as in Literature, there are two modes by which men aim at excellence distinction. In the one, the artist by close study of what others have accomplished, imitates their works, or selects & combines the various beauties; in he other, he seeks excellence at its primitive sources \u2013 Nature. The one produces imitative or at best eclectic art, the other original art. The [?] results of the one mode, as they repeat that only with which the Eye is already familiar, are easily recognised & at once estimated appreciated; the advances of the artist in the other [?] must necessarily be slow, for it is the few only who are able to judge of immature [?] or original study.\n\n35 Charlotte Street\nMay 1832\n\n\nMr. [?]\n[?]"}]},"identifier":[{"accession_number":"Constable\/EL\/3\/2\/MS39-1953","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"Constable\/EL\/3\/2\/MS39-1953"},{"priref":"110009047","type":"priref","value":"110009047"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110009047","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110009047"}],"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":"8.3"}]},"summary_title":"MS Prospectus for 'English Landscape'","title":[{"value":"MS Prospectus for 'English Landscape'"}],"type":{"base":"object","type":"OBJECT"}}