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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 Study—Cattle grazing; No. 22 from Liber Veritatis
Date Made:1803 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 x 16 3/4 in; 28.9 x 42.5 cm; plate: 8 3/16 in x 10 3/16 in; 20.8 cm x 25.9 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude delin.t / No. 22.; in plate, l.c.: Pub. Dec.r 1 1803 by J.& J. Boydell,No. 90, Cheapside; & at the Shakspeare [sic] Gallery, Pall Mall, London. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of the R.P. Knight Esq.r; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom sculp.
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.3.22
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape, rural; with river in middle ground and trees in background; shepherd leaning on staff in left middle ground; cattle grazing and drinking in foreground

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).

Subjects:
Etching

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