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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 Landscape—Eneas [sic]; No. 67 from Liber Veritatis
Date Made:1810 plate; 1819 probably printed
Type:Print
Materials:etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
Place Made:United Kingdom; England
Measurements:plate: 5 9/16 in. x 7 13/16 in.; 13.81125 cm x 19.84375 cm; sheet: 11 7/16 in x 16 13/16 in; 29.05125 cm x 42.70375 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude delin.t / No. 67.; in plate, l.c.: Pub. Dec.r 1, 1810, by Boydell & Co. No. 90, Cheapside, London. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of Edmund Turner Esq.r; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom sculp.t
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.3.67
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
wooded landscape; possible mythological subject (Aeneas); two hunters in center foreground, one holding a spear, the other pointing toward a stag, deer on the left; in right foreground, a man holds two hunting dogs; mountain in far center 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).

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Gellée, Claude, called Le Lorrain
French 1600 – 1682
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