The Cornfield, from "L'Art"

Etcher John Park British

1878

Not on view

Park's etching was published in the French weekly magazine "L'Art" and reproduces a painting by Constable from 1826 in the National Gallery, London. It had been purchased from the artist's estate in 1837 for the nascent national collection by a body of subscribers and given the present title at that time. The artist had first exhibited the canvas at the Royal Academy of Arts as "Landscape," defying any specificity. The following year he re-exhibited the work at the British Institution with the revised title "Landscape: Noon" adding lines from the poem "Summer," first published in 1730, by James Thomson (1700–1748): "A fresher gale begins to wave the wood, and stir the stream, sweeping with shadowy gust the fields of corn."

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Title: The Cornfield, from "L'Art"
Etcher: John Park (British, 1851–1919)
Artist: After John Constable (British, East Bergholt 1776–1837 Hampstead)
Printer: Alfred Fortuné Salmon (French, active 1863–96)
Date: 1878
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Plate: 10 3/4 × 8 7/8 in. (27.3 × 22.5 cm)
Sheet: 16 15/16 × 11 3/4 in. (43 × 29.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985
Object Number: 1986.1180.1946
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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