Description:
mythological subject; group of soldiers with hunting dogs on left, man in (Aeneas) center foreground ready to shoot arrow at stag or deer on the left; landscape with river and distant view of ocean in background; rocky cliffs in right middle ground, group of trees 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).
Subjects:
Etching; Mezzotint engraving Link to share this object record:
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