Shepherd Playing the Flute

Prints and Drawings

1774

Richard Earlom (British, 1743-1822)
after Claude Lorrain (French, 1600-1682)

Beginning in 1774, Richard Earlom produced 200 mezzotints after a famous album of Claude Lorrain landscape drawings then in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth (now at the British Museum). Published in two volumes in 1777, the Liber Veritatis became Earlom’s most influential publication. Most famously, it inspired J. M. W. Turner’s partially mezzotint Liber Studiorum, especially his “elevated pastoral” category.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Richard Earlom
Title: Shepherd Playing the Flute
Place: England (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1774
Medium: Mezzotint in brown on cream laid paper
Dimensions: Image: 19.1 × 25.8 cm (7 9/16 × 10 3/16 in.); Plate: 20.7 × 25.9 cm (8 3/16 × 10 1/4 in.); Sheet: 21.3 × 26.5 cm (8 7/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
Reference Number: 1920.2162
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