Description:
landscape; religious subject (according to Wessely); river; stone bridge with many arches in left and center middle ground; ancient temples, Roman architecture on hill in right background; four figures in left foreground, an old man with two women on either side, and a young man walking in front of them
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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