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.
after Claude Lorrain (Champagne 1600 – Rome 1682)
Category
Books
Date
1819
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3083575.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.1: chiefly ill., port. ; fol. Running number: 7620. Many leaves with foxing. 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'. 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