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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] meeting Venus; No. 94 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; 10 3/8 in. x 12 3/8 in.; 26.3525 cm x 31.4325 cm; sheet: 11 1/2 in x 16 7/8 in; 29.21 cm x 42.8625 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude Lorraine del.t / No. 94.; 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; in plate, within image, l.l.: Claudio / Ro...; in plate, within image, l.r.: Enea accompagnaio di Aacro rincontra Venus inhabiio di / dilaciorico lib. 1... / Enide di Virgilio
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.3.94
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
mythological subject, woman (Venus?) with bow and quiver of arrows, and two soldiers in armor with spears in left foreground; ancient classical temple portico on far left and crenellated fortress or castle in left middle ground; landscape with open view to ocean on right

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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