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Artist/Maker	Lorrain, Claude (artist)
Place of origin	France (drawn)

Landscape, in the middle distance a strongly fortified castle, and mountains in the background, a rivulet flows over broken ground in the foreground, where a tree has been struck by lightning; Drawing in sepia.

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Category	Drawings
Object type	Drawing
Materials and techniques	drawing in sepia Sepia Drawing (Image-Making)
Brief description	Lorrain, Claude (aka Claude Gellée); Landscape, in the middle distance a strongly fortified castle, and mountains in the background, a rivulet flows over broken ground in the foreground, where a tree has been struck by lightning; Drawing in sepia; French School; 17th century.
Physical description	Landscape, in the middle distance a strongly fortified castle, and mountains in the background, a rivulet flows over broken ground in the foreground, where a tree has been struck by lightning; Drawing in sepia.
Dimensions	Height: 8.5in Width: 6.4in Original measurements converted from fractional inches into decimal inches (rounded to one decimal place). Dimensions taken from: DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
Style	French School
Credit line	Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history	The same subject engraved in the third volume of the Liber Veritatis, from the Duke of Devonshire's drawing. Collections-Jonathan Richardson, junior, and Charles Lambert.
Bibliographic reference	DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	DYCE.568

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1028530/drawing-lorrain-claude/

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