| Maker(s): | Earlom, Richard; Gellée, Claude, called Le Lorrain (after)
| | Culture: | British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
| | Title: | A Landscape, with the worship of the Molten Calf; No. 148 from Liber Veritatis
| | Date Made: | 1776 plate; 1819 probably printed
| | Type: | Print
| | Materials: | etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
| | Place Made: | United Kingdom; England
| | Measurements: | plate: 8 1/8 in. x 10 3/16 in.; 20.6375 cm x 25.87625 cm; sheet: 11 3/8 in x 16 3/4 in; 28.8925 cm x 42.545 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | In plate, l.l.: Claude le Lorrain delint / No. 148.; in plate, l.c.: published Sep.r 2.d 1776 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 1953.91.2.48
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; religious, Old Testament subject; figures in foreground and middle ground gathered around pillar with reliefs on upper half and a sculpture of a calf on top, man standing beside second, smaller pillar with burnt offering, smoke, rising up, man gesturing toward sculpture of calf, man in foreground at far right sitting pensively on stump, with dog and jugs at his feet
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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