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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 Landscape, with Mercury driving away the Herds of Admetus; No. 92 from Liber Veritatis
Date Made:1775 plate; 1819 probably printed
Type:Print
Materials:etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
Place Made:United Kingdom; England
Measurements:plate: 10 7/8 in. x 7 3/4 in.; 27.6225 cm x 19.685 cm; sheet: 16 5/8 in x 11 7/16 in; 42.2275 cm x 29.05125 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude le Lorrain delint / No. 92.; in plate, l.c.: published May 1st 1775 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 1953.91.1.92
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; mythological scene, subject; rural; river; stone bridge with three arches and medieval architecture, castle in ruins in left middle ground; man with winged cap of Mercury leading away herd of cattle with stick in center foreground; man playing a violin, musical instrument, in left 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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Gellée, Claude, called Le Lorrain
French 1600 – 1682
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