A Rainbow fills the sky over a distant cathedral past a meadow and trees
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

Softly shaded etching in black on tan paper shows a landscape scene. In a bright sky with billowing clouds, a rainbow curves from top center-left to the center, arcing over a distant cathedral with a tall spire. At right, flat fields stretch from the middle distance almost up to the cathedral, where cattle graze on the grass. In the foreground, a stream curves in toward us from the left, then circles back away toward the center around a dense thicket of gnarled trees. At lower center, A man drives a team of three horses that pull his cart into the shallow stream.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2020.37
People
David Lucas, British (1802 - 1881)
After John Constable, British (E. Bergholt, England 1776 - 1837 London, England)
Title
Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
Other Titles
Alternate Title: The Rainbow
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1837
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/236196

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Mezzotint with graphite corrections (by John Constable) on heavy, off-white wove paper
Technique
Mezzotint
Dimensions
image: 55.1 × 68.8 cm (21 11/16 × 27 1/16 in.)
sheet: 61.5 × 76.9 cm (24 3/16 × 30 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left, graphite: LC
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: C 301[or 7]3 / i/mE/- / 26-5-0 [underlined]
  • collector's mark: verso, lower right, blue ink: [outline of cat head] [graphite:] 92

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sold [through Sotheby's, London, December 12, 1991, lot 191]; to [Robert M. Light, Boston], sold; to Marjorie B. and Martin Cohn, 1992, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2020

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
proof, between e and f
Standard Reference Number
Shirley 39; Wedmore 50

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Marjorie B. and Martin Cohn in honor of Jennifer L. Roberts
Accession Year
2020
Object Number
2020.37
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Old Master, 19th and 20th Century and Contemporary Prints, auct. cat., Sotheby's, London (London, December 12, 1991), p. 53, lot 191, repr.

Exhibition History

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