Description:
landscape; rural; river; architecture, medieval, cities high on rocks in right and left backgrounds; cattle and goats crossing river from left to right, followed by shepherd and shepherdess, shepherdess carrying large bundle on her head; three other figures in left foreground, one man sitting, a woman standing, another woman kneeling at man's feet, holding his foot
Label Text:
From the second 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:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=SC+1953.91.2.3 |
