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Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Lorrain, Claude (after)
Culture:British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
Title:View of a Ferry, with Cattle; No. 22 from Liber Veritatis
Date Made:1774 plate; 1819 probably printed
Type:Print
Materials:etching and mezzotint printed in brown on wove paper
Place Made:United Kingdom; England
Measurements:plate: 8 3/16 in. x 10 1/4 in.; 20.79625 cm x 26.035 cm; sheet: 11 7/16 in x 16 15/16 in; 29.05125 cm x 43.02125 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude le Lorrain delint / No. 22.; 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 1953.91.1.22
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; rural; river; trees; figures; boat; goats; cattle; donkeys; mill on river; medieval ruins in background; man checking goat in foreground; man loading wood onto boat in middle ground; donkeys being ferried across river in background

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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