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| Maker(s): | Earlom, Richard; Gellée, Claude, called Le Lorrain (after) | | Culture: | British; French
| | Title: | A Landscape, with the Colosseum [sic], and other Buildings; in the Fore-ground several Women are seen employed in depositing a dead Body in an antique Sarcophagus; No. 48 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: 7 9/16 in. x 10 11/16 in.; 19.20875 cm x 27.14625 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 le Lorrain delint / No. 48.; 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 1953.91.1.48
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description: landscape; river in background; ancient, Roman architecture, a Coliseum in right background, fragments of ancient ruins in foreground, columns; figures in right foreground including four women laying body into sarcophagus
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 Link to share this object record: https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=SC+1953.91.1.48 |
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