Herdsman Keeping Cattle

ca. 1802

Claude Gellée, Artist Richard Earlom, Artist John and Josiah Boydell, Publisher

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Title Herdsman Keeping Cattle

Artwork Date ca. 1802

Makers Claude Gellée (Artist) French, 1600-1682 Richard Earlom (Artist) English, 1743 - 1822 John and Josiah Boydell (Publisher) English

Medium Etching and mezzotint printed in brown ink on laid paper

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

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 09.1S461

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Inscriptions 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.

Marks 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.

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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.