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
Landing of Cleopatra, 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
- Sheet (trimmed to image edge): 8 1/8 × 10 3/8 inches (20.6 × 26.4 cm)
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S446.C
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Dr. William Frazer (Dublin, Ireland)
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. 63.
Richard Earlom; after Claude Gellée, Landing of Cleopatra, ca. 1774, etching and mezzotint printed in brown ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S446.C.