Liber Veritatis, or A Collection of Prints After the Original Designs of Claude Le Lorrain, Volume I
Richard Earlom, English, 1743 - 1822
after Claude Lorrain, French, 1604 - 1682
1774-1777
Aquatint and etching on paper
Plate: 5 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (14 × 19 cm)
Overall: 17 5/16 × 11 13/16 × 2 3/8 in. (44 × 30 × 6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935
MIS.989.26A
Publisher
John Boydell, London, England
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
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 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. / LONDON: / PUBLISHED BY MESSRS. BOYDELL AND CO. CHEAPSIDE. / PRINTED BY W. BULMER AND CO. CLEVELAND-ROW.; Presented with grateful regard/to M. Cecilia Borks sup. and/the sisters of the Academy/of the Visitation at Mt. De Sales/by/James Slevin (?)/Phila July 21/57
Course History
CLST 7, The Idea of Rome, Margaret Williamson, Spring 2012
COCO 26, What's In Your Toolbox?, Moktar Bouba and Tania Convertini, Fall 2021
Exhibition History
A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 17-December 20, 1998.
Images in Translation: Eighteenth-Century Prints after Old Master Drawings Selected from the Permanent Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30-May 30, 2004.
The Artful Disposition of Shades: The Great Age of English Mezzotints, Owen Robertson Cheatham and Friends Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 19 through March 14, 2010.
Publication History
Timothy Rub, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Kelly Pask, "A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1998, listed, p.95, no. 100.
T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, p.45, ill., fig. 1.
T.Barton Thurber, The Artful Disposition of Shades: The Great Age of English Mezzotints, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, Capital Offset Company Inc., 2010, ill, p. 13, fig. 12, checklist p. 20.
Provenance
James Slevin (?), Philadelphia, until 1857; Mother Cecilia Brooks, Academy of the Visitiation at Mount de Sales; A. Weschler & Company, Washington, D.C. about 1960; collection of Adolph Weil, Jr. (1915-1995), Montgomery, Alabama, 1960-1989; given to present collection, 1989.
This record is part of an active database that includes information from historic documentation that may not have been recently reviewed. Information may be inaccurate or incomplete. We also acknowledge some language and imagery may be offensive, violent, or discriminatory. These records reflect the institution’s history or the views of artists or scholars, past and present. Our collections research is ongoing.
We welcome questions, feedback, and suggestions for improvement. Please contact us at: Hood.Collections@dartmouth.edu