Description:
landscape; rural; ocean in background; stone bridge with four arches, figures crossing, in left middle ground; castle, architecture including medieval crenellated tower, in right middle ground; two men, shepherds, and two women in center foreground, herd of sheep on left; possible religious subject of Jacob and Laban, according to Wessely
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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