Richard EARLOM (London 1743 - 1822) "Landscape with Elena and Paris" Original etching in aquatint dated in the plate in the lower center 1775, from a subject by Claude de Lorrain, from the collection entitled "Liber Veritatis, or, a Collection of Prints after the original Designs of Claude le Lorrain, executed by R.Earlom in the manner and taste of the Drawings, with Descriptions. ”printed and published in London by John Boydell, the publisher of the Royal House, as a complete corpus between the 1777 and 1804. Nice copy in first edition, printed in brown on a portion of laid paper without watermark, with large margins beyond the imprint of the sheet, slightly burnished at the edges and with some small foxing spots at the large white edges , overall in excellent general condition. It is one of the most famous editorial works of eighteenth-century England, in which Earlom experimented with the fusion of various engraving techniques that allowed him to make the most of the atmosphere of Lorraine drawings from the Royal collection. Following the great success of critics and the public, runs of this work were made up to the late nineteenth century, well recognizable both from the type of paper support and from the sharpness of the engraved field. Bibliography: Davenport “Mezzotints” London 1904 pages 136 and 137. LeBlanc “Manuel de l'Amateur d'Estampes” Paris 1856 vol.2 page 181 n ° 105. Lewine “Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books” London 1898 page. 325. Measurements in mm: 207 x 260