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Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Gellée, Claude, called Le Lorrain (after)
Culture:British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
Title:Landscape, with Ruins; No. 85 from Liber Veritatis
Date Made:1817 plate; 1819 probably printed
Type:Print
Materials:hard-ground etching, soft-ground etching, and rocker printed in brown on laid paper
Place Made:United Kingdom; England
Measurements:plate: 8 1/2 in. x 11 in.; 21.59 cm x 27.94 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 delin. / 85; 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 Sculp.t
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.3.85
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape with view of ancient temple and round medieval tower in ruins on left; fragments of columns in left foreground; distant view to open landscape in center; goats grazing in center 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).

Subjects:
Etching

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