Artist: Claude Lorrain (c. 1600 - 1682) was a famous French painter, who lived and worked in Italy.
Engraver: Richard Earlom (1743 – 1822) an English engraver and mezzotinter.
Title (as is in the descriptive catalog): [Vol.II]. No.183. A Landscape at Sun-set; both the Effect and Composition uncommonly simple and beautiful. The Cumaean Sibyl conducting Aeneas to the infernal Shades. (1777 ed.). No. 183. The Cumaean Sibyl conducting Aeneas to the entrance of the Infernal Regions. The view represents an open, bold, and hilly country, lighted up by the last gleams of Sun-set. (1819 ed.).
The Possessors of the Drawings: From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire.
Signed, Numbered, and Dated in the plate in italic: Claude le Lorrain delint. R. Earlom fecit. No. 183. 1777.
Dimensions: Image 8" x 10 1/4". Sheet 10" x 12".
Publisher: Published Mar. 1st. 1777 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside. More about John Boydell in our blog "The Enlightenment man". More about Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in our blog Shakespeare Gallery.
Date: 1777.
Materials and Techniques: Etching with mezzotint on paper laid on cardboard. Hand-colored and matted.
Condition: Trimmed margins. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Part of: Liber Veritatis. Vol. II. London, 1777 - 1819.
Museums and Libraries: Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium. No. SC 1953.91.156
Note: More about Liber Veritatis by Claude Lorrain in our blog Claude Lorrain. Liber Veritatis.