Description:
landscape; religious scene, story; rural; trees; river; sunset; medieval ruins, architecture, tower in background; two figures in center foreground, man on ground wrestling with fish / crocodile / dragon creature, angel standing on his right; dog drinking from stream on right
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:
Etching; Mezzotint engraving Link to share this object record:
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