Description:
landscape; mythological subject; trees and open field on right with deer grazing, resting, one lying dead with arrow in leg; two soldiers in helmets with bows and arrows, one (Aeneas) preparing to shoot toward deer; ocean view in background on left with ships; ancient architecture, ruins on hill in right background
Label Text:
From the third 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 is after Claude drawings from other sources (printed in 1819).
Subjects:
Mezzotint engraving; Etching Link to share this object record:
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