| Maker(s): | Earlom, Richard; Gellée, Claude, called Le Lorrain (after)
| | Culture: | British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
| | Title: | View of a Sea Port, with the Rape of Europa; No. 111 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: 8 3/16 in. x 10 3/16 in.; 20.79625 cm x 25.87625 cm; sheet: 11 1/2 in x 16 15/16 in; 29.21 cm x 43.02125 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | In plate, l.l.: Claude le Lorrain delint / No. 111.; in plate, l.c.: published Septr 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 1953.91.2.11
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; mythological scene, subject; ocean; medieval architecture, crenellated towers, walls, bridge, and tower in ruins in right background; ship in center background; women in center foreground, kneeling around central woman sitting on bull, two women putting garlands of flowers around bull, third woman adjusting central woman's / Europa's drapery
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).
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