Description:
landscape; trees on right; river with two boats tied to shore in left foreground, three figures standing, talking in center foreground, fourth figure crouched below near river bank; fortress, castle tower on opposite side of river in left background; herd of goats (?) lightly sketched, in right foreground
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).
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