Description:
landscape; mythological subject; sunset; ocean in right background; castle, architecture with crenellated walls, arcades, round tower and square two-level building with engaged columns in center middle ground; woman (Psyche) sitting pensively in left foreground, deer, stags, grazing behind her in left 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).
Subjects:
Etching; Mezzotint engraving Link to share this object record:
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