Description:
landscape; religious, Old Testament subject, scene; architecture, palace, castle on right and in right background, with ancient Roman temple with pediment, portico, and dome in right middle ground; figures in center foreground including woman with crown (Esther) with another woman crouching at her feet; three women walking up steps on left
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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