Shepherd Playing the Flute
Richard EarlomWW-1774-082659
1774·Mezzotint in brown on cream laid paper·Image: 19.1 × 25.8 cm (7 9/16 × 10 3/16 in.); Plate: 20.7 × 25.9 cm (8 3/16 × 10 1/4 in.); Sheet: 21.3 × 26.5 cm (8 7/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
<p>Beginning in 1774, Richard Earlom produced 200 mezzotints after a famous album of Claude Lorrain landscape drawings then in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth (now at the British Museum). Published in two volumes in 1777, the <em>Liber Veritatis</em> became Earlom’s most influential publication. Most famously, it inspired J. M. W. Turner’s partially mezzotint <em>Liber Studiorum</em>, especially his “elevated pastoral” category.</p>
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- 1774
- Dimensions
- Image: 19.1 × 25.8 cm (7 9/16 × 10 3/16 in.); Plate: 20.7 × 25.9 cm (8 3/16 × 10 1/4 in.); Sheet: 21.3 × 26.5 cm (8 7/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
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- Art Institute of Chicago
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- Richard Earlom
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- Image: 19.1 × 25.8 cm (7 9/16 × 10 3/16 in.); Plate: 20.7 × 25.9 cm (8 3/16 × 10 1/4 in.); Sheet: 21.3 × 26.5 cm (8 7/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
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