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Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Lorrain, Claude (after)
Culture:British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
Title:Landscape—Christ tempted; No. 15 from Liber Veritatis
Date Made:1802 plate; 1819 probably printed
Type:Print
Materials:etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
Place Made:United Kingdom; England
Measurements:plate: 11 9/16 in. x 7 7/8 in.; 29.36875 cm x 20.0025 cm; sheet: 16 7/8 in x 11 3/8 in; 42.8625 cm x 28.8925 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude delint / No. 15.; in plate, l.c.: Pub. Jan. 20. 1802, by J. & J. Boydell, No.90, Cheapside; & at the Shakspeare [sic] Gallery, Pall Mall, London / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of R. P. Knight, Esq.r.; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom sculpt
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.3.15
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; religious subject; rock cliff with tree on top in left foreground, river; mountains in right background; man (Christ) with halo sitting in left foreground pointing upward while man (Devil) with small horns and pointed beard reaches out to him

Label Text:
From the third 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 is after Claude drawings from other sources (printed in 1819).

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