Youth Instructing a Girl to Play on a Pipe, ca. 1774

  • 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: 9 3/4 × 13 1/2 inches (24.8 × 34.3 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S442

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

Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Claude le Lorrain delint. | N 35 Inscribed, lower center: Published April 25 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside Inscribed, lower right: R Earlom Fecit Inscribed, in black ink, bottom left margin: No 442 - A youth instructing a girl to play on a pipe. | 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. 35.

Richard Earlom; after Claude Gellée, Youth Instructing a Girl to Play on a Pipe, ca. 1774, etching and mezzotint printed in brown ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S442.