Artist Richard Earlom, English, 1743 - 1822
Artist after Claude Gellée, French, 1600-1682
Publisher John Boydell, English, 1719-1804
Title
  • The Robbers
Date ca. 1773
Medium etching and mezzotint printed in brown ink on laid paper
Dimensions Plate: 8 × 10 1/8 inches (20.3 × 25.7 cm)
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 14 1/8 inches (28.6 × 35.9 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1S428
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed In plate, lower left: Claude le Lorrain delint / No. 3; lower center: Published Janry. 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside; lower right: R. Earlom Fecit; in black ink, bottom left margin: No 428 - The Robbers. / By. R. Earlom.
Marks Stamp, verso (Lugt Suppl. 2357a): Scripps
Inscriptions Inscribed, In plate, lower left: Claude le Lorrain delint | No. 3
Inscribed, lower center: Published Janry. 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside
Inscribed, lower right: R. Earlom Fecit
Inscribed, in black ink, bottom left margin: No 428 - The Robbers. | 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. 3.