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A composition by John  Constable of this subject is not recorded and it is possible that Lucas made this mezzotint after his own design to show Constable of what he was capable.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","physicalDescription":"","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Constable, John RA","id":"A8267"},"association":{"text":"painter","id":"x36959"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Lucas, David","id":"A16057"},"association":{"text":"engraver","id":"x30813"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Hollyer, Samuel","id":"AUTH315953"},"association":{"text":"publisher","id":"x32600"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[{"text":"mezzotint","id":"AAT53233"},{"text":"drypoint","id":"AAT53228"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Mezzotint with drypoint","categories":[{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2016JG7588"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLE","id":"THES49657"},"free":"","case":"CLB","shelf":"1","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"prints","id":"AAT41273"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"No","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"England","id":"x28826"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"mid 19th century","earliest":"1825-01-01","latest":"1875-12-31"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Accepted in lieu of Inheritance Tax by H M  Government from the estate of the Hon.  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Christopher Lennox-Boyd and allocated to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2015. Lennox-Boyd formed the finest collection of British mezzotints in private hands anywhere, totalling approximately 50,000 prints. While his main focus was mezzotints, his collection also contained 18th century picture frames, antique women’s shoes, fans and printed handkerchiefs. He also collected printed ephemera, examples of which the museum has also acquired, and watercolours in the 1970s. In 1963 Lennox-Boyd bought Sanders of Oxford, on the High Street, transforming it from a bookshop into a premier seller of fine prints, maps, engravings and 20th-century etchings. He published several works including <i>Theatre Prints in the Age of Garrick </i>and <i>George Stubbs: The Complete Engraved Works.</i>","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Mezzotint, Departing Storm, David Lucas after John Constable, London 1829.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Shirley 2, progress proof after Shirley a\r\nWedmore 43"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[{"text":"","id":""}],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"<i>Departing Storm</i>, about 1829\r\nDavid Lucas after John Constable\r\nMezzotint, proof\r\nConstable may have set this plate as a trial to assess Lucas’s capabilities, as the young engraver was yet to carve out his reputation. It contains dramatic contrasts of light and dark tones, and weather formations including driving rain, ominous-looking clouds and a rainbow. These elements allowed Lucas to prove his skill to Constable and would feature regularly throughout the English Landscape series.\r\n\nFrom <i>John Constable and David Lucas: A Unison of Feeling</i>at V&A South Kensington from 15 November 2025 to 14 June 2026\r\n","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["E.747-2016"],"accessionNumberNum":"747","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2016,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Previous owner's number","id":"THES57329"},"number":"P16,527"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-08-25","recordCreationDate":"2016-05-16","availableToBook":false}}