Description: landscape; mythological subject; ancient Roman temple, portico, columns with lintel, in ruins on far left; man (Argus) reclining in left foreground with shepherd's staff, second man (Mercury) with winged helmet kneeling next to him and playing pipe; cow (Io) and goat laying in center foreground, other cows and goats grazing on right
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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