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| Maker(s): | Earlom, Richard; Gellée, Claude, called Le Lorrain (after) | | Culture: | British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
| | Title: | A Landscape, with Buildings; No. 17 from Liber Veritatis
| | Date Made: | 1802 plate; 1819 probably printed
| | Type: | Print
| | Materials: | etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
| | Place Made: | United Kingdom; England
| | Measurements: | sheet: 11 3/8 in x 16 7/8 in; 28.8925 cm x 42.8625 cm., plate: 8 7/16 in. x 11 1/16 in.; 21.43125 cm x 28.09875 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | In plate, l.l.: Claude delin.t / No. 17.; in plate, l.c.: Pub. Jan. 20, 1802, by J. & J. Boydell No. 90 Cheapside; & at the Shakspeare [sic] Gallery, Pall mall, London. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of R.P. Knight Esq.r.; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom sculp.t
| | Accession Number: | SC 1953.91.3.17
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description: landscape with trees, river, and open view into distance; arched bridge in left middle ground, man with staff standing on bank of river in center middle ground
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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