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Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Lorrain, Claude (after)
Culture:British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
Title:A Study: No. 86 from Liber Veritatis
Date Made:1817 plate; 1819 probably printed
Type:Print
Materials:etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
Place Made:United Kingdom; England
Measurements:sheet: 11 5/8 in x 16 7/8 in; 29.5275 cm x 42.8625 cm; plate: 9 5/16 in. x 12 7/8 in.; 23.65375 cm x 32.7025 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude Lorraine delin / 86; in plate, l.c.: Pub. May 2 1817 by Boydell & Co. N 90 Cheapside London / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire.; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom sculp.t
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.3.86
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape with view of shoreline; ocean, lake on left; trees lining piece of shore that juts into water in foreground; caste, fortress on a plateau in right middle ground; mill extending out into water in left middle ground; mountain in center 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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