Description:
landscape; mythological scene, subject; river, stream; ancient Greek, Roman temple on hill in left background; figures in classical dress in left middle ground; personification of river god Helicon as old man in right foreground, reclining on urn pouring water; deer grazing in foreground; swans swimming in river
Label Text:
From the second 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:
Etching; Mezzotint engraving Link to share this object record:
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