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Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Gellée, Claude, called Le Lorrain (after)
Culture:British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
Title:A Landscape, with the story of Europa; No. 6 from Liber Veritatis
Date Made:1802 plate; 1819 probably printed
Type:Print
Materials:etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
Place Made:United Kingdom; England
Measurements:plate: 10 5/8 in. x 14 7/16 in.; 26.9875 cm x 36.67125 cm; sheet: 11 7/16 in x 16 3/4 in; 29.05125 cm x 42.545 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude delint / No. 6.; in plate, l.c.: Pub. Jan. 20. 1802, by J. & J. Boydell, No.90, Cheapside; & at the Shakspeare [sic] Gallery, Pall Mall / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of R. P. Knight, Esq.r.; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom sculpt; in plate, within image, l.l.: Claude fecit Roma / 1670
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.3.6
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; mythological subject; ocean with ships, boat, round tower in center background jutting into water; group of figures including woman (Europa) riding bull (Zeus) in center foreground, other women sitting, talking in left foreground; herd of cattle in right foreground

Label Text:
From the third 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 is after Claude drawings from other sources (printed in 1819).

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Gellée, Claude, called Le Lorrain
French 1600 – 1682
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