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Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Lorrain, Claude (after); Boydell, John (publisher)
Culture:British (1743-1822); French (1604-1682); British (1719-1804)
Title:The Father of Psyche Sacrificing at the Temple of Apollo, no. 157, From the Original Drawing in the collection of the Duke of Devenshire
Date Made:1776
Type:Print
Materials:engraving
Place Made:Europe; United Kingdom; England: London
Measurements:Sheet: 11 7/16 in x 16 5/8 in; 29.1 cm x 42.2 cm; Plate: 8 1/8 in x 10 5/16 in; 20.6 cm x 26.2 cm; image: 7 3/8 in x 10 5/16 in; 18.7 cm x 26.2 cm
Accession Number:  AC 1978.32.a
Credit Line:Museum purchase
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
The eighteenth-century British printmaker Richard Earlom is best known for his ambitious series of prints (published in three volumes between 1777 and 1819) after drawings made by the seventeenth-century French landscape artist Claude Lorrain from his own paintings. Claude’s rare, hand-illustrated “catalogue” of his painted works (now in the British Museum, but in the collection of the Dukes of Devonshire when Earlom recorded it) has become known by the title of the print series: the Liber Veritatis. Here, Earlom captured a late mythological landscape by Claude showing the Cumaean Sibyl, the prophetess who presided over the shrine of Apollo at Cumae, performing a sacrifice to the ancient Greek sun god.

EEB, 2009

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