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Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Lorrain, Claude (after)
Culture:British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
Title:Saint John; No. 28 from Liber Veritatis
Date Made:1803 plate; 1819 probably printed
Type:Print
Materials:etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
Place Made:United Kingdom; England
Measurements:plate: 8 15/16 in. x 12 1/8 in.; 22.70125 cm x 30.7975 cm; sheet: 11 3/8 in x 16 7/8 in; 28.8925 cm x 42.8625 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude del.t / No. 28.; in plate, l.c.: Pub. Dec.r 1, 1803, by J. & J. Boydell, No.90, Cheapside; & at the Shakspeare [sic] Gallery, Pall Mall, London / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of R. P. Knight, Esq.r.; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom sculpt
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.3.28
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
religious subject, figure; man (Saint John) with long hair wrapped in fur sitting against rock, open book and human skull in lower right hand corner below him; man has halo, hands locked together in gesture of prayer; man looking to left in surprise; landscape behind figure including rocks and ocean view on left

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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