Description:
landscape; religious scene, story; rural; river in background; medieval architecture/castle in right background; figures in center middle ground including three women bending over to look at child in shallow basket, and women standing to right, with her long skirts held up by attendants; sleeping shepherd in right foreground with staff and goat
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:
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