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Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Gellée, Claude, called Le Lorrain (after)
Culture:British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
Title:Martyrdom of St. Catherine; No. 36 from Liber Veritatis
Date Made:1803 plate; 1819 probably printed
Type:Print
Materials:etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
Place Made:United Kingdom; England
Measurements:plate: 8 1/4 in. x 10 3/8 in.; 20.955 cm x 26.3525 cm; overall: 11 3/8 in x 16 7/8 in; 28.8925 cm x 42.8625 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude del.t / No. 36.; in plate, l.c.: Pub. Dec.r 1, 1803, by J. & J. Boydell, No.90, Cheapside; & at the Shakspeare [sic] Gallery, Pall Mall, London. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of R. P. Knight, Esq.r.; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom sculp.t
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.3.36
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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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).

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Gellée, Claude, called Le Lorrain
French 1600 – 1682
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