Description:
landscape; religious, Old Testament subject; river; architecture, buildings surrounded by wall in right background, arched bridge in center background; man (Moses), kneeling with staff in left foreground, gesturing with hand at burning bush on rocks above him at far left, dog on rocks below man on right; herd of sheep grazing and drinking from river in center 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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