Two women herders washing a goat in a pool, with goats and cattle, watched by a man seated on the bank. Engraving by W. Miller after Claude Lorraine.
- Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682.
- Date:
- [between 1840 and 1849?]
- Reference:
- 3055151i
- Part of:
- Engravings after the best pictures of the great masters :
- Pictures
About this work
Description
In the background is a long perspective of a valley in which are a two-storey aqueduct, a colonnade and other ancient buildings
Publication/Creation
London : Colnagi & Puckle : Ackermann & Co. ; Edinburgh : Robert Simpson, [between 1840 and 1849?]
Physical description
1 print : engraving, with etching ; platemark 36 x 40.3 cm
Lettering
Landscape. Roman edifices in ruins. Claude Lorraine ; William Miller
References note
D. Cecchi, L'opera completa di Claude Lorrain, Milan: Rizzoli, 1975, pp. 103-104, no. 145
Reference
Wellcome Collection 3055151i
Reproduction note
After a painting at Longford Castle, seat of the Earls of Radnor, since ca. 1740, which had been engraved by William Woollett in 1772 and by "Naudet" (Cecchi, loc. cit.). Both the present engraving and Woollett's are in the opposite direction to the painting: in the prints. the arch of Titus is on the left, but in the painting on the right
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