Caption
Landscape with Mercury stealing Apollo's cattle, Prints after drawings by Claude Lorrain, Liber Veritatis. Or a Collection of Two Hundred Prints, after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain, print, Series number, 128, 200, printmaker: Richard Earlom, after drawing by Claude Lorrain, publisher: John Boydell, London, 1776-01-01, Richard Earlom, Claude Lorrain, John Boydell, printmaker, after drawing by, publisher, paper, mezzotint, etching, mezzotint and etching, printed in brown, height 207 mm x width 258 mm, From 1774 John Boydell published two hundred prints based on the drawing book Liber Veritatis by Claude Lorrain, in the possession of the Dukes of Cavendish. These prints were published in bundles in two volumes starting in 1777., landscape with bridge, viaduct or aqueduct - II - ideal landscapes, city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions - II - ideal landscapes, Mercury and Battus, Battus is bribed with a heifer as hush-money, A sepia-toned landscape drawing shows tall clustered trees with detailed foliage on either side, an ancient ruin of columns to the left, and distant hills and a small town with simple buildings near the horizon; in the foreground a partially clothed seated figure rests on a rock while grazing animals and a herder appear nearby, and several birds are visible in the sky above scattered clouds.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26B34_487
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