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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 Study—Banditti; No. 14 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: 8 3/8 in. x 11 3/16 in.; 21.2725 cm x 28.41625 cm; sheet: 11 3/8 in x 16 13/16 in; 28.8925 cm x 42.70375 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude delint / No. 14.; 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
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.3.14
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; ocean, sea view, harbor; two large ships in left foreground with men in boat beside ship on far left; four men with staffs walking to left in foreground; herd of goats and shepherd reclining on rocks 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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