Description:
landscape; myth, mythological scene; rural; trees; river; ancient, Roman architecture in background; figures, including nude male figure with arms above head tied to tree and man crouching near his feet sharpening a knife in right middle ground, and group of four figures pointing toward bound man, one with lyre, in center foreground; goats
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).
Subjects:
Mezzotint engraving; Etching Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=SC+1953.91.1.45 |
