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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—Cattle drinking; No. 89 from Liber Veritatis
| | Date Made: | 1817 plate; 1819 probably printed
| | Type: | Print
| | Materials: | hard-ground etching, some soft-ground etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
| | Place Made: | United Kingdom; England
| | Measurements: | plate: 9 1/2 in. x 11 7/16 in.; 24.13 cm x 29.05125 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 Lorraine del.t / No. 89.; in plate, l.c.: London, Pub. May 2, 1817, by Boydell & Co. N. 90, Cheapside. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire.; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom sculp.t
| | Accession Number: | SC 1953.91.3.89
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description: landscape with trees; two shepherds sitting and talking in left four ground; herd of goats, cattle in center foreground; large stone arched bridge in right 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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