Description:
landscape; mythological scene, subject; large tree on right; medieval tower in ruins in right background; two men in right foreground, one sitting beneath tree, the second standing with the winged sandals and cap and caduceus of Mercury; cattle drinking and grazing in center foreground
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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