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Maker(s):Earlom, Richard; Lorrain, Claude (after)
Culture:British (Earlom 1743 - 1822); French (Lorrain 1600 - 1682)
Title:Christ preaching on the Mount; No. 100 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: 10 in. x 13 7/8 in.; 25.4 cm x 35.2425 cm; sheet: 11 7/16 in x 16 13/16 in; 29.05125 cm x 42.70375 cm
Narrative Inscription:  In plate, l.l.: Claude Lorraine del / 100.; in plate, l.c.: Pub. May 2 1817 by Boydell & Co. 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 1953.91.3.100
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
religious subject; figures gathered in center foreground and on hill in left middle ground around man (Christ) talking in left middle ground under tree; herd of sheep graze in foreground; landscape with trees and distant view out to ocean or large river; city, architecture, in center 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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