Maker(s): | Earlom, Richard; Gellée, Claude, called Le Lorrain (after)
| Culture: | British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
| Title: | A Landscape, with Cattle; No. 124 from Liber Veritatis
| Date Made: | 1776 plate; 1819 probably printed
| Type: | Print
| Materials: | etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
| Place Made: | United Kingdom; England
| Measurements: | plate: 8 3/16 in. x 10 1/4 in.; 20.79625 cm x 26.035 cm; sheet: 11 7/16 in x 16 15/16 in; 29.05125 cm x 43.02125 cm
| Narrative Inscription: | In plate, l.l.: Claude le Lorrain delint / No. 124.; in plate, l.c.: published Jan.y 1st 1776 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 1953.91.2.24
| Credit Line: | Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
| Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description: landscape; rural; river, stream; bridge with many arches in left background; ancient Roman buildings, temples, ruins in right and left background; two shepherdesses, one sitting playing flute, the other standing with staff, in left foreground, dog sitting at their feet; goats grazing, drinking from river
Label Text: From the second 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).
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