Description:
landscape; mythological scene, subject; rural; large tree on left; river; ancient Roman round temple on hill in right background; nude man tied to tree in left foreground, another man crouches at this feet; three men sitting in center foreground, one holding lyre and pointing toward figure tried to tree; cattle grazing, crossing river
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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