Description:
landscape; religious, Old Testament subject; figures in foreground and middle ground gathered around pillar with reliefs on upper half and a sculpture of a calf on top, man standing beside second, smaller pillar with burnt offering, smoke, rising up, man gesturing toward sculpture of calf, man in foreground at far right sitting pensively on stump, with dog and jugs at his feet
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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