Description:
landscape; rural; group of trees in center middle ground; river; stone bridge with one arch and ruins in left middle ground; architecture, medieval, crenellated square towers on hill in left background; shepherd and two shepherdesses talking in right foreground; cattle crossing river 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).
Subjects:
Mezzotint engraving; Etching Link to share this object record:
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