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Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Lorrain, Claude (after)
Culture:British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
Title:A Landscape, with Figures. Sinon brought before Priam; No. 145 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 1/8 in. x 10 3/16 in.; 20.6375 cm x 25.87625 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. 145.; in plate, l.c.: published Sep.r 2.d 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 1953.91.2.45
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; mythological subject, scene; cliff, rocks on far right; large tree in center middle ground; two soldiers in right foreground holding man (Sinon), in front of man (Priam) with hand raised; two soldiers approaching right in center foreground

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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