Plate 130; Liber Veritatis; or a collection of prints after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire.
ArtistEngraved by
Richard Earlom
English, 1742 - 1822
Artist
Claude Lorrain (after)
French, 1600 - 1682
ArtistPublished by
John Boydell
English, 1719 - 1804
Date1776
MediumEtching (needle or line etching and mezzotint) on laid paper
DimensionsPlate mark: 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.
Sheet: 10 5/8 x 16 5/8 in. (27 x 42.2 cm)
Sheet: 10 5/8 x 16 5/8 in. (27 x 42.2 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift in memory of Leon H. and Marie Buttlar Sparling by their family
Object number2008.20.23
On View
On viewCollections
- Works on Paper
SignedEtched in the plate, in the legend below the image area, LL, "Claude le Lorraine delin" and at LR "R. Earlom Fecit". In between these in larger lettering at left center "Nº 130" and to the right of that across the bottom center "Published Janry [the ry in superscript] 1st [st in superscript] 1776 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside".
InscribedSee "Signed"
DescriptionCoastal scene with an artist seated on a rock in center foreground drawing with his left hand and waving something above his head (a hat?) with his right. A small boat near him is leaving the shore with three men rowing in the direction of a ship at anchor on the left. Only the bowsprit, bow and first mast of this vessel are visible. Another rowed boat with three men is just beyond it. In the right midground there is a curve of the treed coast with a smaller, lateen-rigged vessel near shore and a rowboat alongside. Left of the center the rayed sun is is blazing from behind clouds and silhouetting another rowboat with four occupants and another lateen rigged boat to its right.Exhibition History"Old Master Prints from the Sparling Family Collection", Hoopes Gallery, The Hyde Collection, February 28 - May 24, 2009.“Prosperity and Exclusion,” The Hyde Collection, Hoopes and Whitney-Renz Galleries, May 31 – Sept. 21, 2025ProvenanceBy 2007, Houston, TX, Tobin Sparling
2008, Glens Falls, NY, The Hyde Collection Trust
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