Shepherd in Conversation with Two Women, ca. 1810

  • Boydell & Co., English
  • Richard Earlom, English, 1743 - 1822
  • Claude Gellée, French, 1600-1682

Etching and mezzotint printed in brown ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 7 1/8 × 9 1/8 inches (18.1 × 23.2 cm) Sheet: 10 7/8 × 14 inches (27.6 × 35.6 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S464

Stamp, verso (Lugt Suppl. 2357a): Scripps 1889 (added in ink to the stamp)

Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: Claude delint. No 73 Inscribed, lower center: Pub. Decr. 1. 1810. by Boydell & Co. No. 90 Cheapside, London. | From the Original Drawing in the Collection of Geo. Hibbert, Esqr. Inscribed, lower right: R. Earlom sculpt. Inscribed, in black ink, bottom left margin: No 464 - A shepherd in conversation with two women. | By - R. Earlom.

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

Kitson, M. Claude Lorrain: LIBER VERITATIS. London, 1978.

Richard Earlom; after Claude Gellée, Shepherd in Conversation with Two Women, ca. 1810, etching and mezzotint printed in brown ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S464.