Description:
landscape; rural; sunset; river; a wooden bridge crossed by goats in foreground, a stone arched bridge in right background; architecture, a Romanesque, medieval building, castle, with round tower near large tree in left middle ground; a shepherd and shepherdess in right foreground, shepherdess "dancing" with dog
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+1953.91.1.90 |
