Samuel Anointing David

Claude Gellée, Artist Richard Earlom, Artist John Boydell, Publisher
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Samuel Anointing David

ca. 1774

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

Sheet (trimmed at plate mark): 8 1/4 × 10 1/4 inches (21 × 26 cm)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S446.D

Public Domain

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Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Claude le Lorrain delin. | No. 69 Inscribed, lower center: Published Novr 1st 1774 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside Inscribed, lower right: R. Earlom Fecit.

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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)

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Kitson, M. Claude Lorrain: Liber Veritatis. London, 1978, no. 69.

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Richard Earlom; after Claude Gellée, Samuel Anointing David, ca. 1774, etching and mezzotint printed in brown ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S446.D.

Samuel Anointing David
Samuel Anointing David