Description:
landscape; religious Old testament subject; architecture, medieval fortress, buildings surrounded by crenellated walls and towers in left background; figures and camel in right foreground, man (Issac or Isaac) talking to woman holding a jug (Rebecca or Rebekah) at well, camel drinking from trough on far right
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).
Subjects:
Mezzotint engraving; Etching Link to share this object record:
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