Description:
landscape; religious subject, scene; rural; peasants, shepherds, figures in right foreground, sitting and standing, looking up at man on hill in center middle ground; hill with stairway leading up its side on left, figures sitting at top of hill, man at center (Christ) gesturing with arm
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:
Mezzotint engraving; Etching Link to share this object record:
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