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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 Buildings and a Sacrifice; No. 157 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 1/16 in. x 10 1/4 in.; 20.47875 cm x 26.035 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. 157.; in plate, l.c.: published Sep.r 2.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 1953.91.2.57
Credit Line:Gift of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; rural; ancient, mythological subject; architecture, including round, ancient Roman temple in left middle ground; figures standing in left middle ground including man with crown and two men with spears, another man crouching next to (sacrificial) cow; figures sitting under tree and woman standing next to bull in right middle ground; cattle grazing and resting in left foreground

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).

Subjects:
Etching

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