| Maker(s): | Earlom, Richard; Lorrain, Claude (after)
| | Culture: | British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
| | Title: | A Landscape with Travellers [sic]; No. 1 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: 4 3/4 in. x 6 1/8 in.; 12.065 cm x 15.5575 cm; sheet: 11 3/8 in x 16 3/4 in; 28.8925 cm x 42.545 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | In plate, l.l.: Claude delint / No. 1.; in plate, l.c.: Pub. Jan. 20. 1802, by J. & J. Boydell, No.90, Cheapside; & at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of R. P. Knight, Esq.r.; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom sculpt; in plate, within image, l.l.: Claude fec
| | Accession Number: | SC 1953.91.3.1
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; rural; two men, travelers, in right foreground, walking to left down path, one point forward with his hand, the other carrying a sack over his shoulder
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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