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Landscape with Walled Town Museum Etching Museum Quality A3

138458Contentum Ltd. Loose sheet. New. High-quality art print based on an original work from the Artic. Created in the 17th century n.d. Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper Museum Etching museum quality in size A3. The artwork is printed with a white border museum-style presentation. Contentum Ltd. unknown

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CLAUDE LORRAIN [ie Claude GELEE]. i eBiblio.com

Liber veritatis. Or a collection of two hundred prints after the original designs. in the collection of. the Duke of Devonshire.

122739London Printed by W. Bulmer for Messrs Boydell & Co volumes I-II and Thomas Davison for Hurst Robinson and Co. volume III 1777-1819. . First complete edition. Three volumes folio 44 x 30 cm mezzotint frontispiece portraits of Claude Lorrain and Richard Earlom volume I without the portrait of Boydell called for in Abbey but not always present 300 etched mezzotint and aquatint plates by Earlom after Claude printed in bistre and black; plate 6 vol iii with small piece of blank corner defective light scattered foxing to plates mainly marginal fine nineteenth century brown morocco gilt extra by Birdsall & Son gilt panelled covers with wide gilt borders gilt panelled spine in six compartments gilt lettered direct in second and fourth others richly gilt broad gilt inner dentelles top edges gilt a fine set. A "landmark in the history of reproduction of Master drawings" Abbey - a fine example of the first complete edition in a magnificent binding. "This capital work. contains 300 reproductions of works by Claude Lorrain pastoral mythological and biblical subjects and was called Liber Veritatis for the purpose of identifying Claude's genuine work from forgeries or from drawings wrongly attributed to the master. They are all printed in a warm bistre colour to aid the resemblance. They were first produced in outline only but owing to the enormous demand Boydell caused Earlom to retouch and refresh the plates five or six times. This is the best and final state embodying the important drawings from the great English collections of the period." Abbey. Claude's Liber veritatis was a bound volume in which he drew copies of his own paintings and recorded details of commissions from about 1635. Although there are omissions -- particularly in the early years -- the liber veritatis is a record of a major artist's oeuvre without parallel until the 20th century and one which served in Claude's own lifetime both as a safeguard against forgeries and as a visual resource. The volume of drawings was eventually acquired by the Dukes of Devonshire and Boydell's Liber veritatis reproduces both these drawings and examples of Claude's works from the great English collections of the period including those of Richard Payne Knight Alderman Hibbert the Earl Spencer Charles Lambert Joseph Farrington George Gosling and Edmund Turnor. The accompanying text not only translates and transcribes Claude's annotations on the versos of the drawings but also gives the names of the contemporary owners of the pictures and details of engravings of the pictures. The purpose of the work was to establish a corpus of works known to be by the artist in order to facilitate the detection of forgeries and the correct identification of genuine drawings and as Abbey states the result was 'a real catalogue raisonne'. With aristocratic provenance: Cyril Flower first Baron Battersea 1843-1907 was a Liberal politician and property developer. He was also a great collector and patron of the arts including James McNeill Whistler and was involved with the Pre-Raphaelite set. Lord Battersea married Constance daughter of Sir Anthony de Rothschild 1st Baronet in 1877. Brunet III 1169; Cohen-De Ricci col.242; Lewine p.325; Lowndes p.1398; Abbey Life 200. London, Printed by W. Bulmer for Messrs Boydell & Co [volumes I-II] and Thomas Davison for Hurst, Robinson, and Co. [volume III] unknown

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