Old Sarum

1833

Portfolio	English Landscape
Medium	mezzotint, trimmed to image and laid within false platemark, on cream wove paper
Dimensions	Image: 5 3/8 x 7 1/4 in. (13.6 x 18.4 cm) Mounting Sheet: 9 1/8 x 30 5/8 in. (23.1 x 77.8 cm)
Object Number	2007.20.9
Acquisition	Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status	Off View

Image Caption

David Lucas, Old Sarum, 1833, mezzotint, trimmed to image and laid within false platemark, on cream wove paper. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.20.9

Select Bibliography

Pionk, Richard C. and Margaret Somers. Constable. Salmagundi Club, October 14 - November 2, 2000. New York, Salmagundi Club. 2000. Shirley, Andrew. The Published Mezzotints of David Lucas After John Constable, R.A. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1930. Barnard, Osbert H. "Lucas-Constable: English Landscape, Revised List of States." Print Quarterly. v.1, no.2. 06/1984:pp. 120-23. Parris, Leslie. Constable: A New York Private Collection. New York: Published Privately, 1994. Clarke, Jay, ed. Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia: The Manton Collection of British Art. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2012.

Provenance

Percy Johnson; Peter Johnson, his grandson, by descent, sold to Manton, Feb. 1985; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1999–d. 2005); Diana Morton, his daughter, by descent (2005–2007, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.