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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 passing a Ford; No. 68 from Liber Veritatis
Date Made:1810 plate; 1819 probably printed
Type:Print
Materials:hard-ground etching, soft-ground etching, and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper
Place Made:United Kingdom; England
Measurements:plate: 6 3/16 in. x 8 3/16 in.; 15.70355 cm x 20.78355 cm; sheet: 11 7/16 in x 16 7/8 in; 29.05125 cm x 42.8625 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude delin.t / No. 68.; in plate, l.c.: Pub. Dec.r 1, 1810, by Mess.rs Boydell & Co. No. 90, Cheapside, London. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of Geo. Hibbert Esq.r; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom sculp.t
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.3.68
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
1953_91_268.jpg

Description:
landscape, rural, trees; shepherd in right foreground sitting in shade beneath tree; small herd of cattle walking toward river in right middle ground; bridge, round tower, and mountain in left 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).

Subjects:
Etching

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