Object Number 1994.0061

Object Name

Print (Etching)

Title

THE MUSICAL SHEPHERDESS

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase with funds provided by Mr. Kemble Widmer II

Creator (Role)

Wilson Lowry (Engraver)
1762-1824

Claude Lorrain (Painter)
1604-1682
Claude was a very prolific painter, and is often considered the greatest of ideal landscape painters. He was born of peasants Jean and Anne (or Idatte) Gellée in the village of Champagne, then in the independent duchy of Lorraine. Due to an inaccurate inscription, his birth date was long believed to be 1600, but it is now believed to be 1604. His early training is uncertain, but it seems as if he went to Rome at age 13 or so, perhaps as a pastry cook, and then probably went to Naples, where he studied painting. He was highly regarded as an artist. His landscapes depict an image of nature more beautiful and better ordered than nature itself, often including pastoral scenes with shepherds guarding their flocks. He refined the theme, first seen in Venetian painting around 1510, by using light as the principal means both of unifying the composition and of lending beauty to the landscape. His popular works embodied the courtly values of 'high finish' and decorum; among his most important patrons were members of the European nobility and higher clergy. (Source: ULAN).

John Boydell (Publisher)
1719-1804

Place of Origin

London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Date

1782

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower left beneath image; Claude le Lorrain Pinxit
2. Inscription; Center beneath image; John Boydell excudit 1782.
3. Inscription; Lower right beneath image; Wilson Lowrie Sculpsit.
4. Inscription; Bottom center; Publish'd August 24..\th by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.

Subjects

Landscape

Materials

Ink; Paper (laid)

Techniques

Line Etched, Stipple Etched, Engraved

Dimensions (inches)

21 (H) , 25.6 (W) , 17.4 (Image H) , 22.87 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

53.3 (H) , 65 (W) , 17.4 (Image H) , 22.87 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

H at left. W at bottom. Plate H (at left): 19.5 in. (49.5 cm). Plate W (at center): 24.0 in. (61.0 cm). Chain intervals: 3.6-3.8 cm; 7 laid lines per cm.

Publisher Summary

Boydell, John

Publication Date

1782

Place of Publication

London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Watermark

dovecote; countermark of TADUPUY FIN/ AUVERGNE, 17[42]

Edition Notes

Very good, excellent impression with full margins.

Object Description

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