Artist: Claude Lorrain (c. 1600 - 1682), a famous French painter, who lived and worked in Italy.
Engraver: Richard Earlom (1743 – 1822), an English engraver and mezzotinter.
Title (as is in the descriptive catalog): {Vol.II]. No. 161. A Landscape, with Moses and the Burning Bush (1777 ed.). No.161. Moses beholding the Burning Bush.
The scene represents an open and richly diversified country, on the right of which rises a rocky mountain. (1819 ed.).
The Possessors of the Drawings: No. 161. From the Original Drawing, in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire.
Signed, Numbered, and Dated in the plate in italic: Claude le Lorrain delint. E. Earlom fecit. No. 161. 1776. Note in pencil on reverse: Landscape, with Moses and the Burning Bush. 1664.
Dimensions: Image 8" x 10". Sheet 11 1/4" x 18".
Publisher: Published Decr. 3rd. 1776 by John Boydell engraver in Cheapside. More about John Boydell in our blog "The Enlightenment man". More about Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in our blog Shakespeare Gallery.
Date: 1776.
Materials and Techniques: Etching with mezzotint on wove paper.
Condition: Creases of paper. Old stains. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Part of: Liber Veritatis. Vol. II. London, 1777 - 1819.
Museums and Libraries: Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium. No. SC 1953.91.161
Note: More about Liber Veritatis by Claude Lorrain in our blog Claude Lorrain. Liber Veritatis.