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

View on the Orwell near Ipswich

A Lugger and Hog Boat, Brighton
1824

Coleorton Hall
1823

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

A view of Brighton Beach with figures on the shoreline