| Maker(s): | Earlom, Richard; Gellée, Claude, called Le Lorrain (after)
| | Culture: | British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
| | Title: | A Landscape, with Cattle, and the Story of Tobias and the Angel; the Temple of the Sibyl seen on a Hill; No. 65 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 1/4 in. x 10 1/4 in.; 20.955 cm x 26.035 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. 65.; in plate, l.c.: published Novr 1st 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 1953.91.1.65
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; religious scene, subject; river, waterfall in background; trees; architecture in center background including bridge, medieval crenellated buildings, tower, and ancient Roman round temple, ruins, columns; shepherd leading cattle across river; angel and man holding fish, sea creature in center foreground
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).
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