After the phenomenal success of the previous five lectures
The Constable Trust is pleased to present an exciting sixth lecture

‘Mr Constable’s English Landscape’ Mezzotints:
A Case of Vanity Publishing?’

by Judy Ivy
Writer & authority on Constable’s prints

on Thursday 22 April 2010, at 6.30 for 7 pm
at the Constable Hall, Gandish Road, East Bergholt

Tickets are £12 (includes wine & canapés)

There is always a great demand for seats so please book early.

We have again this year kept the ticket price down but as the lecture is our main source of income, can you be generous and give us a separate voluntary donation in addition to the ticket price? If you are unable to attend the lecture a donation towards the work of the Constable Trust would be most welcome!

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Judy Crosby Ivy studied art history at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania where she focused on nineteenth-century British painting. Her doctoral dissertation Constable and the Critics 1802- 1837 was published by the Suffolk Records Society as part of their long-standing commitment to Constable studies. She wrote the entries on John Constable and his mezzotint engraver David Lucas for the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and was one of the contributing authors to the Oxford Companion to Turner and the Oxford Companion to the Book. A catalogue raisonné of the Constable/Lucas mezzotints is in preparation, but the complex evolution of the progress proofs and finished states, their wide dispersal in collections throughout Britain and North America, the unorthodox publishing methods adopted by Constable (complicated by his volatile relationship with his engraver) have bedevilled this project from its inception, though not lessened the author's enthusiasm for the research.

Having taught for a small American college affiliated to the University of Reading for over thirty years, Judy Ivy recently retired and moved from Berkshire to East Anglia where she and her husband now live on the banks of the Stour. From their small village just outside Long Melford, they have easy access to those scenes for which Constable professed 'and over-weening affection.'

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