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Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Gellée, Claude, called Le Lorrain (after)
Culture:British; French
Title:A Landscape, with the Story of Marsyas flayed by the Order of Apollo; No. 45 from Liber Veritatis
Date Made:1774 plate; 1819 probably printed
Type:Print
Materials:etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
Place Made:United Kingdom; England
Measurements:plate: 8 1/4 in. x 10 1/4 in.; 20.955 cm x 26.035 cm; sheet: 11 7/16 in x 16 13/16 in; 29.05125 cm x 42.70375 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude le Lorrain delint / No. 45.; in plate, l.c.: published Octr 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire.; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom fecit.
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.1.45
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; myth, mythological scene; rural; trees; river; ancient, Roman architecture in background; figures, including nude male figure with arms above head tied to tree and man crouching near his feet sharpening a knife in right middle ground, and group of four figures pointing toward bound man, one with lyre, in center foreground; goats

Label Text:
From first 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 were after Claude drawings from other sources (printed in 1819).

Subjects:
Etching; Mezzotint engraving

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