Description:
landscape; religious, New Testament subject; river; pyramid in center background, ancient Roman architecture, temple on hill in right background; woman (Mary) and child (Christ) riding donkey guided by woman in right middle ground, man (Joseph) walking behind; two men in boat in center foreground; cattle grazing and drinking from river in center middle ground
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).
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