Description:
landscape; rural; ancient, mythological subject; architecture, including round, ancient Roman temple in left middle ground; figures standing in left middle ground including man with crown and two men with spears, another man crouching next to (sacrificial) cow; figures sitting under tree and woman standing next to bull in right middle ground; cattle grazing and resting in left foreground
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:
Etching; Mezzotint engraving Link to share this object record:
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