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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.

Title: 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. Executed by Richard Earlom, in the manner and taste of the drawings. To which is added a descriptive catalogue of each print; together with the names of those for whom, and the places for which, the original pictures were first painted, (taken from the hand-writing of Claude le Lorrain on the back of each drawing) and of the present possessors of many of the original pictures.
Author: Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682.
Publication: London, Boydell and co., [1777]-1819.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	MEM++ G316gl	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	Stuart 151-153	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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3 v. front. (port.) 300 pl.; 44 cm.

Subject

Drawing, French

Note

Title 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: Hurst, Robinson and co., 1819.
2d issue. The prints are mounted on gray leaves and are somewhat worn.
Dedication dated 1777.
v. 1 and 3 have frontispiece portraits: v. 1, Claude le Lorrain; v. 3, John Boydell.
"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 ... They were at first produced only in outline ... The demand was so extensive that Boydell caused Erlom to retouch and refresh the plates no less than five or six times ..." Dict. nat. biog., under Earlom R.
"Thie life of Claude de Lorrain," v.1, p. [5-10]

Call Number

MEM++ G316gl (Gelée, C. Liber veritatis)

LCCN

18008352

OCLC

8573182
4860006

Author

Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682.

Title

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. Executed by Richard Earlom, in the manner and taste of the drawings. To which is added a descriptive catalogue of each print; together with the names of those for whom, and the places for which, the original pictures were first painted, (taken from the hand-writing of Claude le Lorrain on the back of each drawing) and of the present possessors of many of the original pictures.

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London, Boydell and co., [1777]-1819.

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Earlom, Richard, 1743-1822. Engraver

Boydell, John, 1720-1804. Publisher

Research Call Number

MEM++ G316gl (Gelée, C. Liber veritatis)

Stuart 151-153

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