Harbor with a Large Tower

Description

The date for this print can be found etched on the "'sack that rests on the ground and, more distinctly, on the sack held on the shoulders of the man in the foreground.

Harbor with a Large Tower

Claude Lorrain

c. 1641

Accession Number

111958

Medium

Etching on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Image: 12.8 × 18.9 cm (5 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Plate: 13 × 19.2 cm (5 1/8 × 7 9/16 in.); Sheet: 13.8 × 20 cm (5 7/16 × 7 7/8 in.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection