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| Maker(s): | Earlom, Richard; Lorrain, Claude (after) | | Culture: | British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
| | Title: | A Sea Port, with a Market on Shore, and magnificent Buildings adjoining; No. 9 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 5/16 in. x 10 3/16 in.; 21.11375 cm x 25.87625 cm; sheet: 11 3/8 in x 16 11/16 in; 28.8925 cm x 42.38625 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | In plate, l.l.: Claude le Lorrain delint / No. 9.; in plate, l.c.: published Jan: 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 1953.91.1.9
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description: landscape; seascape; sea port; ships; boats; figures; Roman architecture; Renaissance architecture; medieval architecture; figures on shore, sitting on chests and standing; chests, plates, jugs, shells, musical instrument in foreground
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).
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