| Maker(s): | Earlom, Richard; Gellée, Claude, called Le Lorrain (after)
| | Culture: | British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
| | Title: | View of the Bank of a River—an Artist (Claude) drawing; No. 59 from Liber Veritatis
| | Date Made: | 1807 plate; 1819 probably printed
| | Type: | Print
| | Materials: | etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
| | Place Made: | United Kingdom; England
| | Measurements: | plate: 7 5/8 in. x 10 3/4 in.; 19.3675 cm x 27.305 cm; sheet: 11 7/16 in x 16 7/8 in; 29.05125 cm x 42.8625 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | In plate, l.l.: Claude Lorraine del.t / No. 59.; in plate, l.c.: Pub. June 1, 1807, by Boydell & Co. 90, Cheapside, London. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of Cha.s Lambert Esq.r; in plate, l.r.: Rich.d Earlom sculp.t
| | Accession Number: | SC 1953.91.3.59
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; large tree on left, river in right foreground and middle ground; two men in left foreground, one pointing to right, the other holding a staff, sitting; third man, an artist, sitting in profile and sketching scene in center 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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