Artist: Claude Lorrain (1600 - 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman, and etcher of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in Italy and is one of the earliest important artists, apart from his contemporaries in Dutch Golden Age painting, to concentrate on landscape painting.
Title: Via Sacra ditto Campa Vaccino di Roma.
Signed with monogram CL. L. in plate l.l. Claude, 1636 l.r on the end of the lying column. Titled, Dated: and Signed again on the lower margin: Clade Gellee invent. et sculp. Superior Licencia. 1636. Via Sacra ditto Campa Vaccino di Roma.
Dimensions: Sheet 7 3/4" x 10 1/8". Backing sheet 10 1/4" x 14 1/8".
Publisher: John McCreery, English publisher and printer (1768-1832).
Edition: A Collection of Original Etchings. Published by McCreery. London, 1816. The original copper plates were believed to be destroyed after this publication.
Date: 1816 (published).
Materials and Techniques: etching on a thin, lightweight wove paper printed without margins. Mounted on the same paper as other McCreery prints and presumably taken from the same volume because of the same three sides gilded edge and matching size.
Mat and Frame: adhered to backing paper at corners.
Provenance: The Estate of George "Yorgo" Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute, and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965-2000.
Condition: Yellow spots in the middle. Trimmed within the borderline. The signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Art Movements, Periods & Schools: French School XVII C.