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Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Lorrain, Claude (after)
Culture:British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
Title:A Landscape, with Eneas [sic]—“Libro settimo di Virgile”; No. 93 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:plate: 9 7/16 in. x 11 1/2 in.; 23.97125 cm x 29.21 cm; sheet: 11 7/16 in x 16 7/8 in; 29.05125 cm x 42.8625 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude Lorraine del.t / No. 93.; in plate, l.c.: London, Pub. May 2, 1817, by Boydell & Co. 90 Cheapside. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire.; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom sculp.t; in plate, within image, l.c.: libro settimo di Virgilio sepra Claudio fe/ Coma Acc..te eano il Cer.. / di Silicia Sigliala di Tir... Roma 1678
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.3.93
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
mythological subject; group of soldiers with hunting dogs on left, man in (Aeneas) center foreground ready to shoot arrow at stag or deer on the left; landscape with river and distant view of ocean in background; rocky cliffs in right middle ground, group of trees in left middle ground

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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