Liber Veritatis - Plate 177

Liber Veritatis - Plate 177  is a beautiful black and white etching and aquatint on paper realized by the Italian artist  Ludovico Caracciolo ,  after Claudio di Lorena .

This old master's original print is a beautiful  artist proof , the 177th plate from the series  Liber Veritatis , published in Rome in 1815 by Francesco Bourlié. Representing a wonderful landscape with ruins of an ancient temple, shepherds listening to the music of a piper, and a grazing herd , this aquatint by  Ludovico Caracciolo (engraver)  was inspired by the production of the French painter  Claude Lorrain ( draftsman) .   Signed  and numbered at the bottom of the plate “ Claudio di Lorena inv., L. Caracciolo F .”.

In very good conditions, with usual slightly brown paper on the margins. Including passepartout.

Ludovico Caracciolo  (Rome, 1761-1841)

Roman landscapist and engraver, specialized in architectural drawings and panoramas of the Eternal City, Caracciolo loved travelling and drawing the most beautiful scenes he saw along the way. He became a protégé of  Elizabeth Foster , the second wife of the fifth  Duke of Devonshire , William Cavendish, and had the opportunity to publish a set of prints inspired by Claude Lorrain‘s works, collected in the  Liber Veritatis , Rome, Francesco Bourlié, 1815 (now in the collection of the British Museum).