Description
Creator
Claude Lorrain John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844)
Title(s)
  • Landscape
Date
1798
Medium
Pen and brown ink, watercolour
Mount
mounted by the artist
Inscription
  • sheet, recto, lower left
  • “J.H.Merivale 1798”
Object Type
Watercolour

Catalogue Number
FT887
Description Sources
Owner

Provenance

Descended from the artist to his great-great-granddaughter Judith Bunbury (born 1915), it remains in a private collection.

Associated People & Organisations

Private Collection

Comment

This is Merivale’s earliest known work, a copy of pl.2, vol.1, of the Earlom edition of Claude Lorrain’s Liber Veritatis (1777).1

by Richard Stephens

Footnotes

  1. 1 I am grateful to Timothy Wilcox for pointing this out.

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