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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, with Moses and the burning Bush; No. 99 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: 9 3/8 in. x 11 7/8 in.; 23.8125 cm x 30.1625 cm; sheet: 11 3/8 in x 16 7/8 in; 28.8925 cm x 42.8625 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude Lorraine del.t / No. 99.; in plate, l.c.: Pub. May 2, 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
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.3.99
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
religious subject, shepherd (Moses) with staff kneeling in center foreground before a burning bush on the far left; herd of sheep graze and drink from river on right; wooded landscape with open view into the distance, bridge and temple ruins in left background, castle or fortress 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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