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ca. 1930 (made)

Typewritten descriptive label for the mezzotint entitled 'Departing Storm' (E.1767:1-1991) with pencil annotation.


Object details

Object type
Print
Materials and techniques
Type and pencil on paper
Ink
Pencil
Paper
Typewriting
Handwriting
Brief description
Descriptive label for the mezzotint entitled 'Departing Storm' (E.1767:1-1991), by David Lucas and John Constable; written by Peter Leslie; British, ca. 1930.
Physical description
Typewritten descriptive label for the mezzotint entitled 'Departing Storm' (E.1767:1-1991) with pencil annotation.
Dimensions
  • Height: 7.2cm
  • Width: 16cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • This fine proof of The Departing Storm was given / to my grandfather C.R. Leslie, in 1845 by the / engraver Mr. David Lucas. Mr. Lucas held this / proof in particular esteem as it was one of the / first two landscapes on which he had worked with / John Constable. It was as a result of these that / he received the commission for the famous series of engravings / of English landscape scenery. (Typewritten label; 'first' corrected from 'forst'.)
  • Purchased March 1932 from Peter Leslie, Esq., / author of the Letters of John Constable. (Handwritten in pencil below typewritten label.)
Object history
Purchased March 1932 from Peter Leslie, Esq., author of the Letters of John Constable.
Historical context
David "Lucas held this proof in particular esteem as it was one of the first two landscapes on which he had worked with John Constable. It was as a result of these that he received the commission for the famous series of engravings of English landscape scenery."
Associated object
E.1767:1-1991
Bibliographic references
  • Shirley, A. The published mezzotints of David Lucas after John Constable, R.A.: a catalogue and historical account. (Oxford, 1930)
  • Catalogue of the Complete Works of David Lucas. Gooden and Fox's Gallery, May, 1903. Another impression, no. 85.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1767:2-1991

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Record createdApril 30, 2008
Record URL
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