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Claude
Gelee, also known as Claude Lorrain (1600-1682), was a leading artist in the
Italian school of landscape painting. His harbor scenes and views of the Roman
countryside had a lasting influence on landscape artists for centuries to come.
In the late 1700?s, during the Romantic period of art, his drawings and
paintings were made into sepia toned mezzotint engravings.

Richard
Earlom and W. Say Engravings after Claude Le Lorrain, not framed. Richard
Earlom (1743-1822), was a master printmaker, specializing in the mezzotint. In
1774 the Duke of Devonshire lent his collection of Claude Le Lorrain drawings
to the publisher Boydell for the purpose of having them engraved, and Boydell
commissioned Earlom to do this job. It took
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