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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; No. 82 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: 6 13/16 in. x 9 1/2 in.; 17.30375 cm x 24.13 cm; sheet: 11 3/8 in x 16 3/4 in; 28.8925 cm x 42.545 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude Lorraine del. / 82.; in plate, l.c.: Pub. May 2, 1817, by Boydell & Co. No. 90 Cheapside, London. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom scu.
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.3.82
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
wooded landscape; river with small bridge in left foreground; view to background with fortified crenellated wall surrounding buildings in center middle ground; mountains 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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