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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 in the Garden; No. 83 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: 7 1/16 in. x 10 1/2 in.; 17.93875 cm x 26.67 cm; sheet: 11 7/16 in x 16 15/16 in; 29.05125 cm x 43.02125 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude Lorraine delin.t / 83; in plate, l.c.: Pub. May 1 1817 by Boydell & Co. N. 90, Cheapside London. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire.; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom sculp.t; in plate, within image, l.c.: Roma 1765; in plate, within image, l.r.: Claudio fecit
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.3.83
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
wooded landscape, religious subject; two figures in left foreground, woman kneeling (Mary Magdalene), man standing (Christ), Noli me Tangere; angel entering cave in right middle ground; three crosses on hill (Mount Calvary) in right background; open view to background in center

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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