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Richard Earlom1771
- Attribution
- Richard Earlom (British, 1743-1822) after Joseph Wright of Derby (British, 1734-1797)
- Medium
- Mezzotint in black on ivory laid paper
- Physical dimensions
- Image: 61.2 × 43.4 cm (24 1/8 × 17 1/8 in.); Sheet: 62 × 44 cm (24 7/16 × 17 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Prints and Drawings Fund #1, Prints and Drawings Endowment and Sara R. Shorey Endowment
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Source rights statement: Public domain
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Working with stunning speed, Richard Earlom produced 200 mezzotint landscapes after Claude Lorrain in three years and made this sizable plate less than three months after Joseph Wright of Derby completed the original painting. This impression is an early proof before letters, but the final published title boasted that “the Right Honorable Lord Melbourne” already owned the painting. He had bought it for 150 guineas directly from the artist’s studio, along with Wright’s Academy by Lamplight . The glow of the iron ingot on the central anvil is no less impressive in Earlom’s mezzotint rendition.
Description: Art Institute of Chicago · CC BY 4.0