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Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Lorrain, Claude (after)
Culture:British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
Title:A Landscape, with Ruins of a Temple; No. 73 from Liber Veritatis
Date Made:1810 plate; 1819 probably printed
Type:Print
Materials:etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
Place Made:United Kingdom; England
Measurements:plate: 7 1/16 in. x 9 1/16 in.; 17.93875 cm x 23.01875 cm; sheet: 11 3/8 in x 16 7/8 in; 28.8925 cm x 42.8625 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude delin.t / No. 73.; in plate, l.c.: Pub. Dec.r 1, 1810, by Boydell & Co. No. 90 Cheapside, London. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of Geo. Hibbert. Esq.r; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom sculp.t
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.3.73
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape, rural, group of large trees in center middle ground; three figures in center middle ground, shepherd with a staff talking with two women, herd of sheep grazing on right; ancient temple ruins in right middle ground; river with bridge in left middle ground

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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