Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Claude le Lorrain delint. | No. 15. Inscribed, lower center: Published Jan: 1st, 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside. | From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire. Inscribed, lower right: R. Earlom fecit.
Piping Herdsman, ca. 1773
- John Boydell, English, 1719-1804
- Richard Earlom, English, 1743 - 1822
- Claude Gellée, French, 1600-1682
Etching and mezzotint printed in brown ink on laid paper
- Plate: 8 1/8 × 10 1/8 inches (20.6 × 25.7 cm) Sheet: 8 3/8 × 11 1/8 inches (21.3 × 28.3 cm)
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S433.B
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
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October 1901, Tregaski's (London, England). 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Kitson, M. Claude Lorrain: LIBER VERITATIS. London, 1978, no. 15.
Richard Earlom; after Claude Gellée, Piping Herdsman, ca. 1773, etching and mezzotint printed in brown ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S433.B.