[The story of finding Moses, with the Colosseum, and other buildings; in the fore-ground several women are seen employed in depositing a dead body in an antique sarcophagus] [graphic]

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15808836

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Title: [The story of finding Moses, with the Colosseum, and other buildings; in the fore-ground several women are seen employed in depositing a dead body in an antique sarcophagus] [graphic]
Alternative Title: From the original drawing in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire
Creator: Earlom, Richard, 1743-1822, printmaker
Contributor: Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682, artist.
Boydell, John, 1720-1804, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 September 1774]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published Septr. 1st, 1774, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Abstract: "Landscape with the Finding of Moses; shepherd reclining on rocks in foreground, a group of women on the shore of a river beyond, a tower and bridge in mid-distance."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from descriptive catalog at beginning of bound volume.
Text below image: From the original drawing in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire.
One of two hundred plates that were later issued in bound volumes entitled: Liber veritatis. Or, A collection of two hundred prints ... / after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain ... executed by Richard Earlom ... London : Published by the proprietor, John Boydell, [1777-1819].
Plate numbered in lower left corner: No. 48.
Watermark.
Provenance: Ex dono Mrs. Rd. Butterfield; October 1965; R.G. Michel, Paris, October 1965.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 27.2 x 20 cm, on sheet 40 x 27 cm
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 774.09.01.04

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Landscape prints
Reproductions
Mezzotints England London 1774
Etchings England London 1774
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching and mezzotint ; and laid paper sepia ink.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Moses (Biblical leader)
Subject (Topic): Shepherds
Sarcophagi
Subjects: Moses (Biblical leader)
Shepherds
Sarcophagi
England > London > 1774

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 9932745
Object ID (OID): 15808836