Richard Earlom (British, 1743-1822)
after Claude Lorrain (French, 1600-1682)
Shepherd Playing the Flute
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Richard Earlom (British, 1743-1822)
after Claude Lorrain (French, 1600-1682)1774
Shepherd Playing the Flute
Richard Earlom (British, 1743-1822) after Claude Lorrain (French, 1600-1682) →mezzotintprint
Date
1774
Medium
Mezzotint in brown on cream laid paper
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.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
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 Liber Veritatis became Earlom’s most influential publication. Most famously, it inspired J. M. W. Turner’s partially mezzotint Liber Studiorum, especially his “elevated pastoral” category.