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Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Gellée, Claude, called Le Lorrain (after)
Culture:British; French
Title:A Landscape, with the Story of finding Moses; No. 47 from Liber Veritatis
Date Made:1775 plate; 1819 probably printed
Type:Print
Materials:etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
Place Made:United Kingdom; England
Measurements:plate: 10 5/8 in. x 7 9/16 in.; 26.9875 cm x 19.20875 cm; sheet: 11 7/16 in x 16 7/8 in; 29.05125 cm x 42.8625 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude le Lorrain delint / No. 47.; in plate, l.c.: published Septr 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 1953.91.1.47
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; religious scene, story; rural; river in background; medieval architecture/castle in right background; figures in center middle ground including three women bending over to look at child in shallow basket, and women standing to right, with her long skirts held up by attendants; sleeping shepherd in right foreground with staff and goat

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:
Mezzotint engraving; Etching

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