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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, with Mercury and Argus; No. 78 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: 8 11/16 in. x 11 15/16 in.; 22.06625 cm x 30.32125 cm; sheet: 11 7/16 in x 16 15/16 in; 29.05125 cm x 43.02125 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude delin.t / No. 41.; in plate, l.c.: London; Pub. Dec.r 1, 1810, by Boydell & Co. 90, Cheapside. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of Mr. Woodburn.; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom sculp.t
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.3.78
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
mythological subject; man (Mercury) playing pipe to sleeping man with staff (Argus) in foreground, four cows rest on right; goats grazing in middle ground; wooded landscape surrounding figures, view into distant landscape at center

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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