Herdsman Keeping Cattle, ca. 1802

  • John and Josiah Boydell, English
  • Richard Earlom, English, 1743 - 1822
  • Claude Gellée, French, 1600-1682

Etching and mezzotint printed in brown ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 6 1/2 × 8 3/4 inches (16.5 × 22.2 cm) Sheet: 11 × 13 7/8 inches (27.9 × 35.2 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S461

Stamp, verso (Lugt Suppl. 2357a): Scripps

Inscribed, unclearly in plate, lower right of image: [illegible]03 | Claude fecit Roma Inscribed, lower left: Claude delint. | No 3. Inscribed, lower center: Pub. Jan. 20. 1802. by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall; & No. 90. Cheapside. | From the Original Drawing in the Collection of R P Knight Esqr. Inscribed, in black ink, bottom left margin: No 461 - A herdsman keeping 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.

Richard Earlom; after Claude Gellée, Herdsman Keeping Cattle, ca. 1802, etching and mezzotint printed in brown ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S461.