River Stour, Suffolk — David Lucas Fine Art Poster
River Stour, Suffolk — David Lucas Fine Art Poster
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The Story in the Margin
David Lucas engraved this mezzotint after John Constable's views of the River Stour, the Suffolk waterway that ran past Flatford Mill, the mill owned by the artist's father and the setting for many of Constable's best-loved paintings. The scene looks along the river toward Flatford Bridge, with sailing barges on the water and the church at Dedham visible in the distance, closely based on Constable's large painting “View on the Stour near Dedham.” Published in 1831 as part of Lucas's twenty-two-print series “English Landscape Scenery,” it is prized for its tonal subtlety in capturing the working agricultural waterway Constable knew intimately from childhood. The Stour valley he returned to throughout his career is still known today as “Constable Country.”
Printed with archival giclée inks on smooth, acid-free 220 gsm gallery-grade fine-art paper; available in multiple sizes.
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My husband spotted this months ago and I finally gave in. Every line in River Stour, Suffolk is crisp, even in the busiest areas. This one is staying with us a long time.
The subject was exactly what I was hunting for and the reproduction is clean. The scan behind River Stour, Suffolk is clean, with no obvious artifacts. The detail holds up well from a couple of feet away.
I wanted something for the study that nobody else would have, and this is it. It brings out parts of River Stour, Suffolk I have never seen reproduced this well. I already have my eye on a second one.