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Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Lorrain, Claude (after)
Culture:British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
Title:A Landscape, with Peasants and Cattle passing a Ford; No. 81 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. 81.; in plate, l.c.: published May 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 1953.91.1.81
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; rural; river, small waterfall in background; large trees on right and left; architecture, some ancient ruins, buildings on rocky high point overlooking river in background; figures crossing the river in foreground, man carrying woman across, second woman following behind with skirt pulled up

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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