Landscape No. 15 from "Liber Veritatis", 1774

Not on View

Medium

etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 21 × 26 cm (8 1/4 × 10 1/4 in.)

sheet: 23.5 × 28.8 cm (9 1/4 × 11 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Abbot Mills

Catalogue Raisonné

Smith 1884, undescribed

Accession Number

1970.24.1

Artists / Makers

Richard Earlom (artist) British, 1743 - 1822

Claude Lorrain (artist after) French, 1604/1605 - 1682

Image Use

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Inscription

In plate, at lower left: Claude le Lorrain delint / N. 15; in plate, at lower center: Published Janry 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside; in plate, at lower right: R:Earlom Fecit

Bibliography

1884: Smith, John Chaloner. British mezzotinto portraits, being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century. 4 vols. London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1884.

2021: Hoisington, Rena.Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 94, fig. 5