1695837675000 1695822048000 Standard Record object-110009926 1747159857055 1699454098000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110009926 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009926 b455ac86-d721-32aa-bb2c-536acdf1c927 2 person reference agent-29619 adlib-agent-29619 ef67fb8d-9a82-3301-9947-b8d0526effb3 Constable, John person reference agent-82139 adlib-agent-82139 5787a108-be4d-3fcb-adb7-368ca6d4dc85 Lucas, David content description This is a letter from John Constable to David Lucas, dated 22 November 1832. The published transcript of this letter can be found in Shirley (No. 128, page 97) and Beckett (page 388 & Appendix C, No. 10, page 456). The leaf has been numbered S128, referring to the order in Shirley's publication. TRANSCRIPT: --- <recto> Frontispiece --------- top & extremities of trees more detached. a light down the back of figure. dog lighter. cows made out. 1 x Spring ------ nothing Sunset ------ nose of horse too light - also edge of foreground x Noon ------- nothing large Canal - perhaps the boat sail too light. 2 Summer Morg - foreground much too light in mass - x Summer Evng - nothing . Dell ------ Cow to be made a stag Heath --------- left hand corner of sky - at top - lighter - 3 x Yarmouth - nothing Brighton --- [t/n: 'fisher' deleted] man at his nett made out - sky &c. Flatford Mill Stream - nothing Head of Lock - nothing 4 x Summerland nothing x Old Sarum nothing x Stoke -- nothing x Dedham Mill - nothing - (but to be altered in comp. a proof sent touched) 5 x Weymouth - nothing Red Hill - more breadth of light top right hand corner. - or the little light put down - to flat the post Glebe farm - Cow put down - & a little Cloud also. and a bit of the Road under Cow. Castle ----- ------ a proof sent touched a good deal Vignette -- nothing __________________ Well Walk, 22 Nov 1832 Dear Lucas I send you this list which I wrote as I touched a fine sett of the India Proofs - much very much further - the Castle will take a quarter an hour - it is the least finished of all the plates. But it has more work - & is the best plate, but its general effect is so imperfect - We must meet before some of these are printed - & I must touch them from the proofs. Pray keep this list - as it will remind me - Yours truly John Constable <verso/cover> Mr Lucas Harrow Road 57. Paddington [t/n: the following is written in a different hand inversely] Mr Constables list of alterations to his plates --- Constable/EL/1/1/162 1 accession number Constable/EL/1/1/162 110009926 priref 110009926 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009926 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009926 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 12.8 Width in 8.1 MS Letter with list of alterations, Constable to Lucas object OBJECT