Detroit Institute of Arts Museum
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Richard Earlom
after Claude Gellée
Landing of Cleopatra, ca. 1774
etching and mezzotint printed in brown ink on laid paper
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Artist Richard Earlom, English, 1743 - 1822
Artist after Claude Gellée, French, 1600-1682
Publisher John Boydell, English, 1719-1804
Title
  • Landing of Cleopatra
Date ca. 1774
Medium etching and mezzotint printed in brown ink on laid paper
Dimensions Sheet (trimmed to image edge): 8 1/8 × 10 3/8 inches (20.6 × 26.4 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1S446.C
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Claude le Lorrain delint. | No. 63
Inscribed, lower center: Published Novr 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside
Inscribed, lower right: R. Earlom Fecit
Provenance
Dr. William Frazer (Dublin, Ireland);
October 1901, Tregaski's (London, England).
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Kitson, M. Claude Lorrain: LIBER VERITATIS. London, 1978, no. 63.