Liber veritatis; or A collection of prints, after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain; in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire. Executed by Richard Earlom, in the manner and taste of the drawings. To which is added a descriptive catalogue of each print; together with the names of those for whom, and of the places for which, the original pictures were first painted, (taken from the hand-writing of Claude le Lorrain on the back of each drawing) and of the present possessors of many of the original pictures. Volume the first[-third].
after Claude Lorrain (Champagne 1600 – Rome 1682)
Category
Books
Date
1819
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3083575
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. : chiefly ill., port. ; fol. Running number: 7620. Many leaves with foxing, particularly in vol. 1. Wanting plate no. 6 in vol. 3, in its place is portrait of Claude Lorrain. Ephemera: folded hand-written note loosely inserted at front of vol. 2, written in a very hard-to-read nineteenth-century hand, headed "Norwich July 19 18..." [rest of date illegible], the text reading "Dear Sir, I take the liberty of sending you ... [illegible] ... clean copy of Claudes Liber Veritatis for which I can take 8 guineas. I think you were a bidder for the copy sold at Nupennies[?] sale. I am your obed servt Cha Musket" [i.e. Charles Muskett (1804-1856), Norwich bookseller and publisher], and addressed to "Revd. Jas Bulwer" [i.e. Reverend James Bulwer (1794-1879), curate of Blickling and Erpingham, who was also Blickling's librarian]. Provenance: manuscript inscription on title page: "C H Suffield" [i.e. Caroline Hans Harbord, Lady Suffield (1767-1850); daughter of John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire; married William Assheton Harbord, 2nd Lord Suffield, in 1792]. Manuscript price in pencil on vol. 1 front pastedown: "3 vols. £8.8.0". Binding: nineteenth-century buff paper over boards; printed label on spines: 'Claude's Liber veritatis. Vol. I[-III]'. Edges untrimmed.
Makers and roles
after Claude Lorrain (Champagne 1600 – Rome 1682), artist Richard Earlom (London 1743 - London 1822), engraver (printmaker) John and Josiah Boydell (Firm), printer and publisher