Description:
landscape; religious New Testament subject; ancient Roman architecture, building in ruins in right middle ground and ancient Roman temple with pediment and engaged columns in ruins in center middle ground; three figures in center foreground, man (Christ) furthest to right with halo around head, man on left facing away from viewer and gesturing to left 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:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=SC+1953.91.2.51 |
