Maker(s): | Earlom, Richard; Lorrain, Claude (after)
| Culture: | British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
| Title: | A Landscape, with Cattle, and the Representation of the Flight into Egypt; No. 60 from Liber Veritatis
| Date Made: | 1774 plate; 1819 probably printed
| Type: | Print
| Materials: | etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
| Place Made: | United Kingdom; England
| Measurements: | plate: 8 1/8 in. x 10 1/8 in.; 20.6375 cm x 25.7175 cm; sheet: 11 7/16 in x 16 7/8 in; 29.05125 cm x 42.8625 cm
| Narrative Inscription: | In plate, l.l.: Claude le Lorrain delint / No. 60.; in plate, l.c.: published Augt 1st 1774 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 1953.91.1.60
| Credit Line: | Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
| Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description: landscape; religious scene, story; rural; river; bridge; ancient, Roman architecture, ruins, columns in left middle ground; woman, Mary on donkey with child, Christ crossing bridge with man, Joseph following behind in left middle ground; man fishing with net and herdsmen with staff in center foreground; goats, cattle
Label Text: From first 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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