Liber Veritatis; or, a Collection of Two Hundred Prints, after the Original Designs of Claude le Lorrain (volume I)

1777

Richard Earlom

Artist, British, 1743 - 1822

Josiah Boydell

Artist, British, 1752 - 1817

John Boydell

Publisher, British, 1719 - 1804

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with letterpress text and 101 etchings and mezzotints printed in black and brown on laid paper (including frontispiece portrait of Claude Lorrain by Josiah Boydell)

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    book: 42 × 28.5 × 4 cm (16 9/16 × 11 1/4 × 1 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.1467

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Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1912

  • Cohen, Henri. Guide de l'amateur de livres a gravures de XVIIIe siecle. 6th edition revised and enlarged by Seymour de Ricci. Paris, 1912: col.242.

Inscriptions

in gold-tooled letters on spine of leather binding: LIBER / VERITATIS / I

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