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Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Gellée, Claude, called Le Lorrain (after)
Culture:British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
Title:A Study, with ancient Ruins; No. 70 from Liber Veritatis
Date Made:1810 plate; 1819 probably printed
Type:Print
Materials:etching, aquatint and rocker printed in brown on laid paper
Place Made:United Kingdom; England
Measurements:plate: 9 1/8 in. x 5 15/16 in.; 23.1775 cm x 15.08125 cm; sheet: 16 7/8 in x 11 7/16 in; 42.8625 cm x 29.05125 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude delin.t / No. 70.; in plate, l.c.: Pub. Dec.r 1, 1810, by Boydell & Co. No. 90 Cheapside, London. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of C. Lambert. Esq.r; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom sculp.t; in plate, within image, l.l.: Claude lorci (?) fe
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.3.70
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
view of ancient ruins, stone wall with several arches, stairs in left foreground; trees on right and behind wall

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:
Etching

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