Kustgezicht met ruïne en Apollo met de Sibille van Cumae, Richard Earlom, after Claude Lorrain, 1775

Title(s)

Kustgezicht met ruïne en Apollo met de Sibille van Cumae
Prenten naar tekeningen van Claude Lorrain (series title)
Liber Veritatis. Or a Collection of Two Hundred Prints, after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain (...) (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

99/200

Object number

RP-P-OB-17.862

Inscriptions / marks

• date

Artist

• print maker: Richard Earlom (mentioned on object)
• after drawing by: Claude Lorrain (mentioned on object)
• publisher: John Boydell (mentioned on object)

Place

London

Dating

1-May-1775

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 207 mm × width 258 mm

What

• coast - HH - ideal landscapes
• landscape with ruins - II - ideal landscapes
• landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone) - HH - ideal landscapes
• the Cumaean Sibyl is granted long life: Apollo grants the Cumaean Sibyl as many years as she has grains of sand in her hand, in return for her love (Ovid, Metamorphoses XIV 136)

Acquisition

unknown 1993

Copyright

Public domain

• Claude Lorrain : Liber Veritatis [belonging to the British Museum London, cat.nr. 99
• Richard Earlom : Verzeichniss seiner Radirungen und Schabkunstblätter, cat.nr. 247