# Noon, in David Lucas

David Lucas made this in 1830, aged 28. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> Sheep graze on a sloping hillside, watched by a shepherd, while a large dark tree anchors the right side and the land falls away to open fields under a broad sky.

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## The work

- Date: 1830
- Medium: mezzotint on laid paper
- Dimensions: plate: 18.5 x 25.5 cm (7 5/16 x 10 1/16 in.) sheet: 19.5 x 30.6 cm (7 11/16 x 12 1/16 in.)
- Type: Print
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001.118.23
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[David Lucas](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/david-lucas), British, 1802–1881

Lucas was a mezzotint engraver best known for his long collaboration with John Constable.

4 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [David Lucas's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-david-lucas?hang=749) (8 works)
- [More Georgian Britain](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/georgian-britain?hang=749) (63 works)
- [19th-century Britain](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/19-britain?hang=749) (40 works)

## Get it

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