Artist Richard Earlom, English, 1743 - 1822
Artist after Claude Gellée, French, 1600-1682
Publisher John Boydell, English, 1719-1804
Title
  • Pastoral Landscape with Herd and Herdsmen Fording a Stream
Date ca. 1775
Medium Etching and mezzotint printed in brown on laid paper
Dimensions plate: 8 1/8 x 10 1/4 in.
20.7 x 26.0 cm
sheet: 11 1/8 x 14 1/8 in.
28.1 x 35.8 cm
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1S453
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Marks Scripps stamp, verso (Lugt Suppl. 2357a)
Inscriptions In plate, lower left: Claude le Lorrain delint,, / No,, 109.; lower center: Published Septr. 1st, 1775 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside. / From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire.; lower right: R. Earlom fecit,,; in black ink, bottom margin: No 453. - A herdsman and a woman on an ass passing a river with cattle. / By - R. Earlom.
March 1889, (Sotheby's, London, England).
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Kitson, M. Claude Lorrain: LIBER VERITATIS. London, 1978, no. 109.