The Cornfield
in or after 1832
Medium
mezzotint [progress proof]
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Paul Mellon Collection
Accession Number
1975.46.26
Art Historical Context
Step into the sun-dappled fields of rural England with *The Cornfield*, a mezzotint progress proof by David Lucas after John Constable in or after 1832., a master of Romantic landscape painting, drew inspiration from his Suffolk boyhood for his original 1826 oil painting of the same title, evoking nostalgia for a vanishing agrarian life amid the Industrial Revolution's shadow. Lucas, Constable's favored engraver, faithfully captured this idyllic scene—likely featuring a winding path through golden wheat, distant trees, and a horse-drawn wagon—in this print from the acclaimed *English Landscape...