Smith, John: A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters: in which is included a short biographical notice of the artists, with a copious description of their principal pictures : a statement of the prices at which such pictures have been sold at public sales on the continent and in England; a reference the the galleries and private collections in which a large portion are at present; and the names of the artists by whom they have been engraved; to which is added, a brief notice of the scholars & imitators of the great masters of the above schools (Part 8) (London: Smith and Son, 1837)

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CLAUDE LORRAINE.

Landscapes.
The following one hundred descriptions were written srom
the Prints in the Third, or Supplementary Volume, impro-
perly called the Liber Veritatis. These, like the preceding,
were also engraved by Richard Earlom, after drawings
by Claude, many of which are merely compositions, or
slight studies srom nature, and not copies from pictures,
as are the preceding two hundred.—Observe, the number
inserted at the end of each description corresponds with
that of the print in the book.
201. The Travellers. A landscape with clusters of trees
on the verge of a hill of a broken form, extending along the
whole of the view. On the left of the fore-ground are two
travellers walking; together, one of whom carries a bundle on
his shoulder.—No. 1.
The original drawing, together with the following thirty-
seven, were bequeathed by Richard Payne Knight, Esq., to
the British Museum.

202. The Ponte Mola. The scene represents a view on the
banks of the Tiber, showing, in perspective, the celebrated
Ponte Mola, composed of five arches, and having on its farther
side a lofty building, which commands its entrance. In the
fore-ground are four sheep grazing.—No. 2.

203. A Herdsman keeping Cattle. The view here exhibits
a scene in the neighbourhood of a forest, and is distinguished
by a row of four trees along the fore-ground, and a cluster at
the side. Upon a bank, near the latter, is seated a herdsman ;
his cattle browse on the farther side of some rising ground on
the left. Signed, and dated 1663.—No. 3.