| Maker(s): | Earlom, Richard; Lorrain, Claude (after)
| | Culture: | British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
| | Title: | A Landscape, with the Angel comforting Hagar, when she had fled from Sarah; No. 106 from Liber Veritatis
| | Date Made: | 1775 plate; 1819 probably printed
| | Type: | Print
| | Materials: | etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
| | Place Made: | United Kingdom; England
| | Measurements: | plate: 8 1/4 in. x 10 5/16 in.; 20.955 cm x 26.19375 cm; sheet: 11 7/16 in x 16 15/16 in; 29.05125 cm x 43.02125 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | In plate, l.l.: Claude le Lorrain delint / No. 106.; in plate, l.c.: published Septr 1st 1775 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 1953.91.2.6
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; religious scene, subject; rural; river; arched stone bridge in center middle ground, city, buildings, architecture on cliff, rocks, in center background; woman sitting on ground in left foreground, angel bending over her, reaching for her hand
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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