Description:
landscape; mythological subject (according to Wessely), Aeneas; seaport; harbor; ocean; Renaissance architecture with portico, columns, and pilasters on right, medieval castle, building with crenellated towers and wall on left; ships, boats; figures on shore in foreground including two soldiers with feathered helmets and boy with dog standing behind them in center foreground
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+1953.91.1.96 |
