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| Maker(s): | Earlom, Richard; Gellée, Claude, called Le Lorrain (after) | | Culture: | British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
| | Title: | Christ preaching on the Mount; No. 100 from Liber Veritatis
| | Date Made: | 1817 plate; 1819 probably printed
| | Type: | Print
| | Materials: | etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
| | Place Made: | United Kingdom; England
| | Measurements: | plate: 10 in. x 13 7/8 in.; 25.4 cm x 35.2425 cm; sheet: 11 7/16 in x 16 13/16 in; 29.05125 cm x 42.70375 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | In plate, l.l.: Claude Lorraine del / 100.; in plate, l.c.: Pub. May 2 1817 by Boydell & Co. 90 Cheapside London. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire.; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom sculp.t
| | Accession Number: | SC 1953.91.3.100
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
religious subject; figures gathered in center foreground and on hill in left middle ground around man (Christ) talking in left middle ground under tree; herd of sheep graze in foreground; landscape with trees and distant view out to ocean or large river; city, architecture, in center background
Label Text:
From the third 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 is after Claude drawings from other sources (printed in 1819).
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