1688407239000 1688376579000 Standard Record object-110009075 1747159857088 1699450900000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110009075 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009075 c178f38f-2edf-3ff4-b66f-74e4326f50da 2 person reference agent-29619 adlib-agent-29619 ef67fb8d-9a82-3301-9947-b8d0526effb3 Constable, John content description This is the letterpress essay prepared to accompany the Frontispiece of 'English Landscape'. '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. In his accompanying text, Constable sought to explain his work. He did so because ‘many can read print & cannot read mezzotint’ (R.B. Beckett, John Constable’s Correspondence III, p. 108). For the Frontispiece, John Constable chose to use a painting of his birthplace, East Bergholt, where ''his ideas of Landscape were formed''. The leaf has been a part of a large brown binding (Constable/EL/2/MS36-1953/35). The sheet has been labelled 'xix'. There is a pencil inscription on the top right, perhaps left by E.E. Leggatt (he has left remarks on other material as well). It reads: ''-1st text-''. In his explanatory notes (Constable/EL/6/1), R.B. Beckett describes this and the following item as: ''20-21. Frontispiece: Shirley's D 7 and 8.'' Constable/EL/2/MS36-1953/21 1 accession number Constable/EL/2/MS36-1953/21 110009075 priref 110009075 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009075 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009075 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference agent-29619 adlib-agent-29619 ef67fb8d-9a82-3301-9947-b8d0526effb3 Constable, John Length in 11.15 Width in 17 Letterpress Essay for Frontispiece, 'English Landscape' object OBJECT