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Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Lorrain, Claude (after)
Culture:British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
Title:Scene of a ruined Building, with the Trial (or Temptation) of Saint Anthony. The several Demons are fantastically designed; and the Irradiation of Light breaking in from above, with the steady venerable Countenance of the Saint directed towards it, are happily imagined; No. 32 from Liber Veritatis
Date Made:1774 plate; 1819 probably printed
Type:Print
Materials:etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
Place Made:United Kingdom; England
Measurements:plate: 8 3/16 in. x 10 3/16 in.; 20.79625 cm x 25.87625 cm; sheet: 11 7/16 in x 16 3/4 in; 29.05125 cm x 42.545 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude le Lorrain delint / No. 32.; in plate, l.c.: published April 25th 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire.; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom fecit.
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.1.32
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; river; trees; ancient, Roman architecture, arches, columns in right foreground; medieval, crenellated towers in background; religious subject; saint; demons in boats in middle ground, demon pulling at cloth held by saint; saint looking to upper right, where divine light shining

Label Text:
From first 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).

Subjects:
Mezzotint engraving; Etching

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