Classical Landscape, no. 67 from Liber Veritatis, after Claude Lorrain
Primary
Richard Earlom
(London, England, 1743–1822)
NationalityEnglish, Europe
Date1774
MediumMezzotint
DimensionsSheet: 11 9/16 × 17 5/16 in. (29.3 × 43.9 cm)
Additional Dimension: 8 1/16 × 10 3/16 in. (20.5 × 25.8 cm)
Additional Dimension: 8 1/16 × 10 3/16 in. (20.5 × 25.8 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Agnes and William J. Crowley, Jr., 2002.2827
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2002.2827
On View
Not on viewThe Liber Veritatis [Book of Truth] is an album of drawings Claude Lorrain (1604-1682) created to document his own paintings and combat the already prevalent forgeries of his work. In England in the 1770s, printmaker Earlom reproduced the Liber Veritatis as a series of mezzotints, approximating the quality of light and variegated tones and textures of the master’s drawings. The publication and distribution of the French artist’s designs proved seminal to the British landscape school.
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