Description:
religious subject, figure; man (Saint John) with long hair wrapped in fur sitting against rock, open book and human skull in lower right hand corner below him; man has halo, hands locked together in gesture of prayer; man looking to left in surprise; landscape behind figure including rocks and ocean view on left
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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