David Lucas, After John Constable, The Cornfield blue There’s a geometric quality to

There’s a geometric quality to it

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David Lucas, After John Constable, The Cornfield blue There’s a geometric quality toThis charming engraving by David Lucas (1802 1881) is after a well loved rural scene by John Constable (1776 1837) titled The Cornfield. Its finely rendered and was initially commissioned by Constable for a book, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery, first published in 1830. It depicts a young lad, dry from Summer heat, conspicuously stretching to drink from a pool. As a boy, Constable wandered through this lane towards his