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Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Lorrain, Claude (after)
Culture:British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
Title:A Landscape; Eneas [sic] landed; No. 40 from Liber Veritatis
Date Made:1803 plate; 1819 probably printed
Type:Print
Materials:etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
Place Made:United Kingdom; England
Measurements:plate: 8 3/16 in. x 11 3/8 in.; 20.79625 cm x 28.8925 cm; sheet: 11 3/8 in x 16 15/16 in; 28.8925 cm x 43.02125 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude del.t / No. 40.; in plate, l.c.: Pub. Dec. 1, 1803, by J. & J. Boydell, No.90, Cheapside; & at the Shakspeare [sic] Gallery, Pall Mall, London. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of Mr. Ald.n Hibbert.; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom sculp
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.3.40
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; mythological subject; trees and open field on right with deer grazing, resting, one lying dead with arrow in leg; two soldiers in helmets with bows and arrows, one (Aeneas) preparing to shoot toward deer; ocean view in background on left with ships; ancient architecture, ruins on hill in right background

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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