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graved by David Lucas. To the President and Members<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Royal Academy <strong>of</strong> Arts, This Landscape Engraved<br />
from a Painting by John Constable, Esq R.A., is by<br />
permission most respectfully dedicated by their Obedient<br />
servant Thomas Boys.’<br />
Final state. Christopher Lennox-Boyd vi/vi<br />
Condition: Wide margins on the most part, though the<br />
bottom <strong>of</strong> the sheet has been trimmed just outside <strong>of</strong> the<br />
platemark.<br />
[29980]<br />
£450<br />
Scenery,’edited by H.G. Bohn and published by Thomas<br />
Boys in 1853. The series consisted <strong>of</strong> forty mezzotint<br />
engravings on steel plates; all <strong>of</strong> which were produced by<br />
Lucas.<br />
Inscription content: ‘Painted by John Constable. Engraved<br />
by David Lucas. To the President and Members<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Royal Academy <strong>of</strong> Arts, This Landscape Engraved<br />
from a Painting by John Constable, Esq R.A., is by<br />
permission most respectfully dedicated by their Obedient<br />
servant Thomas Boys.’<br />
Reworked and republished final state. Christopher Lennox-Boyd<br />
vi/vi.<br />
Condition: Wide margins. Excellent impression. [29982]<br />
£450<br />
8. [The Lock]<br />
Mezzotint<br />
David Lucas after John Constable<br />
London: Republished Feb.y 15, 1853, by Thomas Boys<br />
(<strong>of</strong> the late Firm <strong>of</strong> Moon, Boyd & Greaves,) Printseller<br />
to the Royal Family, 467, <strong>Oxford</strong> Street - Paris.<br />
E.Gambart & C. 9 Rue d’Orleans au Marais,-Depose.<br />
Originally Published July 1.1834.<br />
Image 487 x 565 mm, Plate 515 x 683 mm, Sheet 606 x<br />
736 mm<br />
framed<br />
The Lock was one <strong>of</strong> a sequence <strong>of</strong> large pictures <strong>of</strong><br />
Suffolk canal scenes that Constable exhibited at the<br />
Royal Academy between the years <strong>of</strong> 1819 and 1825.<br />
The keeper <strong>of</strong> Flatford Lock is depicted in the process<br />
<strong>of</strong> opening the gates whilst a barge waits in the basin for<br />
the water levels to drop. On the left, a horse waits beside<br />
a crouching figure. Fields extend into the distance and a<br />
church can be seen.<br />
This print derives from a posthumous collection<br />
<strong>of</strong> Constable’s works entitled ‘English Landscape<br />
9. Faust<br />
Etching with hand and printed colouring<br />
Louis Icart<br />
Copyright 1928 by L Icart - paris -. Edite par Les<br />
Graveurs Modernes 194 Rue de Rivoli_ Paris_<br />
Image 520 x 325 mm, Plate 543 x 350 mm, Sheet 656 x<br />
455 mm<br />
unmounted<br />
Signed in pencil, pro<strong>of</strong> inscribed E/331, with artist’s<br />
blindstamp.<br />
A brilliant example <strong>of</strong> 1920’s French Art Deco by Louis<br />
Icart. The image depicts Goethe’s ‘Faust,’ and illustrates<br />
Mephistopheles with the young maiden Gretchen whom<br />
he desires to lead astray.<br />
Condition: Excellent impression with strong original<br />
colour. Small pr<strong>of</strong>essionally repaired tear to left hand