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Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Lorrain, Claude (after)
Culture:British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
Title:A Landscape, with dancing Peasants; No. 41 from Liber Veritatis
Date Made:1807 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 3/8 in x 16 15/16 in; 28.8925 cm x 43.02125 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude Lorraine del.t / No. 41.; in plate, l.c.: Pub. June 1, 1807, by Mess.rs Boydell & Co. 90 Cheapside, London. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of Earl Spencer.; in plate, l.r.: Rich.d Earlom sculp.t
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.3.41
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; rural; sunset; trees on left; men and women dancing and sitting in center and left foreground, man on far left sitting, playing bagpipe; herd of goats grazing in right middle ground; architecture, ruins in right background

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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