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Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Gellée, Claude, called Le Lorrain (after)
Culture:British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
Title:Eneas [sic] landed—“Libro Septo Virgilio”; No. 80 from Liber Veritatis
Date Made:1817 plate; 1819 probably printed
Type:Print
Materials:etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
Place Made:United Kingdom; England
Measurements:plate: 8 5/16 in. x 10 5/8 in.; 21.11375 cm x 26.9875 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 Lorraine del.t / 80.; in plate, l.c.: Pub. May 2 1817 by Boydell & Co. N. 90, Cheapside, London. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire.; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom Sc; in plate, within image, l.c.: ...Cumaea (?) / mostro a Enea / il tempio libro Septo...Virgilio; in plate, within image; l.r.: Claudio in F / 1675
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.3.80
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
mythological subject; soldiers in left foreground standing beside old man holding branches in his hand; triumphal arch on left, pantheon-like temple with dome and broken pediment on right; view of ocean in 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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