Description:
landscape; rural; river, small waterfall in background; large trees on right and left; architecture, some ancient ruins, buildings on rocky high point overlooking river in background; figures crossing the river in foreground, man carrying woman across, second woman following behind with skirt pulled up
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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