Description:
landscape; religious, New Testament subject; river; stone bridge and ancient Roman temple ruins, architecture, in left foreground; pyramid in far center background; mother (Mary) sitting with child (Christ) in lap in far right foreground attended by angel crouching next to them, man (Joseph) sits behind them with staff; donkey with saddle, and sheep and goats graze in foreground and middle ground
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:
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