Claude Lorrain (1600–1682), After – Boydell Engraving, No. 126, 1776 The confident line work

The confident line work

but part of a broader 19th century visual language that blended scholarship

confident strokes

The box itself is richly cast with fine textural detail and classical ornament

This style echoes traditional European still life painting but with a more relaxed mid century hand

Claude Lorrain (1600–1682), After – Boydell Engraving, No. 126, 1776 The confident line workClaude Lorrain (16001682), After Boydell Engraving, No. 126, 1776 Engraving after Claude Lorrain, inscribed Claude le Lorrain delin. From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire with plate number No. 126 and publication line: Published Jan. 1st, 1776, by John Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside. This print belongs to Boydells ambitious Collection of Prints after the Most Capital Paintings in England(1770s), a project that cemented