Description:
landscape; religious, Old Testament subject; sunset; river; stone bridge with three arches in left middle ground; ancient Roman architecture, pedimented and round temples in left background; angel standing in left foreground, man (Tobias) wrestling with fish, sea monster, to right, dog standing to left; two men fishing in boat in right 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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