Description:
landscape; mythological subject; figures, gods and goddesses, Muses sitting on rocks in left middle ground; man at center (Apollo ?) playing violin, two women sitting on rocks in front, woman on left with torch, woman on right with tablet and stylus; two swans swimming in river left 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).
Subjects:
Etching; Mezzotint engraving Link to share this object record:
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