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Harbor Scene at Sunset

Claude Gellée, Artist Richard Earlom, Artist John Boydell, Publisher
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About the Artwork

Harbor Scene at Sunset

ca. 1773

Claude Gellée (Artist) French, 1600-1682 Richard Earlom (Artist) English, 1743 - 1822 John Boydell (Publisher) English, 1719-1804

Etching and mezzotint printed in brown ink on laid paper

Plate: 8 1/4 × 10 1/8 inches (21 × 25.7 cm) Sheet: 11 1/8 × 14 inches (28.3 × 35.6 cm)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S430

Public Domain

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Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Claude le lorrain delint. | No. 6. 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. Inscribed, in black ink, bottom margin: No 430 - A view of a sea port in Italy, represented under the appearance of Sunset. | By - R. Earlom. Inscribed, in pencil, verso: 1/6

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

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March 1889, (Sotheby's, London, England).
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Kitson, M. Claude Lorrain: Liber Veritatis. London, 1978, no. 6.

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Richard Earlom; after Claude Gellée, Harbor Scene at Sunset, ca. 1773, etching and mezzotint printed in brown ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S430.

Harbor Scene at Sunset
Harbor Scene at Sunset