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Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Lorrain, Claude (after)
Culture:British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
Title:A Landscape, by the Sea-side, with the Story of Carlo and Ubaldo embarking in Pursuit of Rinaldo. Tasso , xv.; No. 168 from Liber Veritatis
Date Made:1776 plate; 1819 probably printed
Type:Print
Materials:etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
Place Made:United Kingdom; England
Measurements:plate: 8 1/8 in. x 10 3/16 in.; 20.6375 cm x 25.87625 cm; sheet: 11 3/8 in x 16 13/16 in; 28.8925 cm x 42.70375 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude le Lorrain delint / No. 168.; in plate, l.c.: published Dec.r 3.d 1776 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire.; in plate, l.r.: R. Earlom fecit.
Accession Number:  SC 1953.91.2.68
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; literary, mythological subject; ocean on left with ships, boat in background; woman in boat near shore in left foreground, both arms held out, boat with carved monster's or dragon's head on prow, two soldiers standing to right of boat on shore

Label Text:
From the second 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 were after Claude drawings from other sources (printed in 1819).

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