Description:
landscape; mythological subject; ocean with ships in center background; ancient Roman architecture, some in ruins on left, right, and in background, round temple on hill in right middle ground, ruins, fragments of columns and entablature in left foreground; man (Apollo) in classical dress with lyre in right foreground holding hand out to woman (sibyl) sitting on rock to left
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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