# A Mill, from English Landscape

- By: David Lucas (after John Constable (English, 1776-1837))
- Date: 1830
- Medium: Mezzotint on off-white wove paper
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: Image: 14.2 × 21.3 cm (5 5/8 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 17.5 × 24.2 cm (6 15/16 × 9 9/16 in.); Secondary support: 30 × 38.8 cm (11 13/16 × 15 5/16 in.)
- Culture: England
- Credit line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/27125)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/61f92e85034d9e93504d018b5aee9e9b.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A talented mezzotint engraver, David Lucas devoted his career to reproducing the landscape paintings of John Constable. In the mezzotint process, the entire plate is roughened to create a dark field and then burnished to bring out highlights. Done in monochrome, Lucas’s prints masterfully emphasize the motion and play of light in Constable’s visions of the English landscape.

Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0