Description:
religious subject, saint's life; wheel with serrated fins breaking to pieces in center middle ground, woman (Saint Catherine) standing to right with hands in gesture of prayer, reached for by angel, in right middle ground; two men collapsing beside broken wheel; figures in right foreground pointing toward scene; architecture, ancient building in right foreground; landscape behind figures
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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