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Mountain landscape with goats: P.391-1991

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Mountain landscape with goats
Liber veritatis or A Collection of two hundred prints after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Earlom, Richard
Designer: Claude Lorrain (Affter)
Publisher: Boydell, John

Entities

Categories

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950, transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

1774-01-01 - 1777

Note

From Liber veritatis, or, A Collection of two hundred prints, after the original designs of Claude Le Lorrain: in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, executed by Richard Earlom...To which is added a descriptive catalogue of each print..., London, John Boydell, engraver, 1777

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

Brown ink

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Plate Height 210 mm Width 260 mm
Sheet Height 271 mm Width 346 mm

Techniques used in production

Mezzotint
Etching

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: Claude le Lorrain delint.
  • Location: Plate lower left
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Signature
  • Text: R. Earlom fecit.
  • Location: Plate lower right
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Signature
  • Text: No. 7
  • Location: Plate lower left
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Number
  • Text: Published Jan: 1st. 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside.
  • Location: Plate lower centre
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Signature
  • Text: From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire.
  • Location: Plate lower centre
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Dedication

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.391-1991
Primary reference Number: 20013
Nagler (Künstler-Lexicon): p.52
Wessely (Earlom): 155
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 2 March 2023 Last processed: Thursday 2 November 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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