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Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Lorrain, Claude (after)
Culture:British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
Title:View with several Vessels lying close to the Shore; No. 30 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 1/4 in. x 10 3/16 in.; 20.955 cm x 25.87625 cm; sheet: 11 5/8 in x 16 5/16 in; 29.5275 cm x 41.43375 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude le Lorrain delint / No. 30.; in plate, l.c.: published April 25th 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 1953.91.1.30
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; ocean; architecture on hills at left; large ships in right foreground; boats; man helping another man out of boat in foreground on left; three men talking in foreground on right

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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1 Related People

Gellée, Claude, called Le Lorrain
French 1600 – 1682
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