Liber veritatis, or, a collection of two hundred prints after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain : the collection of the Duke of Devonshire (v.2)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Liber veritatis, or, a collection of two hundred prints after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain : the collection of the Duke of Devonshire (v.2)
Classmark: Large Art C-0 LOR
Creator(s): Earlom, Richard (1743-1822)
Additional creator(s): Lorrain, Claude (1600-1682) (Other)
Related people: Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682; Devonshire, Dukes of
Publisher: Published by the proprietor, John Boydell, engraver
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1777-1819
Language: English
Size and medium: 3 volumes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/188106
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008677249705181
Description
"These drawings were called the Liber veritatis, and were made for the purpose of identifying the real works of Claude from others said to be from his hand. These engravings are executed in imitation of the original drawings, and printed in a warm bistre colour... They were at first produced only in outline ... The demand was so extensive that Boydell caused Earlom to retouch and refresh the plates five or six times ..."--Dict. nat. biog., under Earlom. The original drawings passed from Devonshire to the British Museum in 1957.
Title page of v. 3 reads: 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, Earl Spencer, Richard Payne Knight, Benjamin West, P.R.A., Charles Lambert, Edward Turnor, George Gosling, and Joseph Farrington, esqrs., executed by Richard Earlom... . London : Published by Hurst, Robinson, and Co., Successors to messrs. Boydell : Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars, 1819.
Indexed in: Kitson, M. Claude Lorrain : Liber veritatis.
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