John Constable

Verso: a preliminary draft, in the artist's hand, of the proposed text for the mezzotint of Spring

Provenance

Alfred Lucas, brother of David Lucas, from whom purchased by
E.E. Leggatt
R.B. Beckett Collection, UK, by 1956, from whom acquired by the late Dr and Mrs W Katz in 1965, and thence by descent
Sale Bonhams, London, 10 April 2019, nr. 249

Other works by John Constable

The Church of St Mary-ad-Murum, Colchester
1808

Worcester Cathedral from the meadows

Languard Fort, near Felixstowe

Fittleworth Mill, Sussex
1835

View on the Orwell near Ipswich
1815