| Maker(s): | Earlom, Richard; Lorrain, Claude (after)
| | Culture: | British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
| | Title: | A Landscape, with Buildings. Mercury stealing Admetus’s Cattle from Apollo; No. 135 from Liber Veritatis
| | Date Made: | 1776 plate; 1819 probably printed
| | Type: | Print
| | Materials: | etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
| | Place Made: | United Kingdom; England
| | Measurements: | plate: 8 3/16 in. x 10 3/16 in.; 20.79625 cm x 25.87625 cm; sheet: 11 7/16 in x 17 in; 29.05125 cm x 43.18 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | In plate, l.l.: Claude le Lorrain delint / No. 135.; in plate, l.c.: published Jan.y 1st 1776 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire.; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom fecit.
| | Accession Number: | SC 1953.91.2.35
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; mythological subject; river, stream; bridge with one arch in left middle ground; city, ancient Roman architecture, temples, in center and left background; figure leading cattle over bridge in left middle ground, woman sitting on rocks, playing violin, looking up, in center foreground; herd of cattle, goats, sheep, grazing and resting in right foreground
Label Text:
From the second volume of three volume Liber Veritatis, a collection of mezzotints after drawings by Claude Lorrain. Each volume contains 100 prints; the first two volumes are after Claude drawings in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire (first printed in 1777, with a second printing in 1819), the third volume were after Claude drawings from other sources (printed in 1819).
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