About the Artwork
Travelers Taking Their Repast on the Banks of a River
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 1/4 inches (21 × 26 cm) Sheet: 11 × 14 1/8 inches (27.9 × 35.9 cm)
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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S434
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Markings
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Claude le Lorrain delint. | No. 16 Inscribed, lower center: Published Janry 1st, 1774, by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside Inscribed, lower right: R: Earlom Fecit in black ink, bottom left margin: No 434 Travelers taking their repast on the banks of a river. | By - R. Earlom.
Provenance
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. 16.
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Richard Earlom; after Claude Gellée, Travelers Taking Their Repast on the Banks of a River, ca. 1773, etching and mezzotint printed in brown ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S434.
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