Search Results:

Viewing Record 1 of 1		 


Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Gellée, Claude, called Le Lorrain (after)
Culture:British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
Title:A Landscape, with Ruins of a Temple; No. 73 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: 7 1/16 in. x 9 1/16 in.; 17.93875 cm x 23.01875 cm; sheet: 11 3/8 in x 16 7/8 in; 28.8925 cm x 42.8625 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude delin.t / No. 73.; in plate, l.c.: Pub. Dec.r 1, 1810, by Boydell & Co. No. 90 Cheapside, London. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of Geo. Hibbert. Esq.r; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom sculp.t
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.3.73
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
1953_91_273.jpg

Description:
landscape, rural, group of large trees in center middle ground; three figures in center middle ground, shepherd with a staff talking with two women, herd of sheep grazing on right; ancient temple ruins in right middle ground; river with bridge in left middle ground

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).

Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=SC+1953.91.3.73

Research on objects in the collections, including provenance, is ongoing and may be incomplete. If you have additional information or would like to learn more about a particular object, please email fc-museums-web@fivecolleges.edu.

1 Related People

Gellée, Claude, called Le Lorrain
French 1600 – 1682
Viewing Record 1 of 1