Description:
landscape; religious Old Testament subject; shepherd (Moses) kneeling in center foreground, holding hand to face and looking up; herd of sheep grazing behind him; rocky hill with trees on left, bright light suggested on upper left; city, architecture, in right background
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:
Mezzotint engraving; Etching Link to share this object record:
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