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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; No. 18 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: | plate: 8 5/8 in. x 10 3/4 in.; 21.9075 cm x 27.305 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 delint / No. 18.; in plate, l.c.: Pub. Jan.y 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 sculpt
| | Accession Number: | SC 1953.91.3.18
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description: man, shepherd, sitting on rock in front of tree in right foreground, holding staff in left hand; landscape behind figure; river in left middle ground; tower, architecture on hill 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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