Description:
landscape; religious Old Testament subject; sunset behind clouds; ruins of ancient pedimented Roman temple in right middle ground; two women (including Rachel) and man (Jacob) with staff in center-right foreground; man pointing backwards toward fountain on right, herd of sheep gathered around fountain, drinking from it in right foreground; wooden fountain cover placed slightly 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).
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