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Sic Itur and Catulos (Primary Title)
Sketches for College Rooms (Series Title)

Charles Loraine Smith, English, 1751 - 1835 (Artist)

ca. 1820
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored etching and aquatint on wove paper with a watermark: J WHATMAN / 1815
European Art
Sheet: 9 5/8 × 11 5/8 in. (24.45 × 29.53 cm)
Plate: 7 7/8 × 9 7/8 in. (20 × 25.08 cm)
Image: 5 15/16 × 8 1/2 in. (15.08 × 21.59 cm)
85.1289.4
Not on view
Signed in plate lower left: "L Loraine Smith" (son of Charles Lorain Smith, to whom the work is attributed)
Printed beneath image in center: "SIC ITUR AD CATULOS."/ "In vain the stream / "In foaming eddies whirls, in vain the ditch / "Wide gaping threatens death."/ Published by Harraden & Son Cambridge. Inscribed in graphite on verso: "Smith", "HRH 11 / 21/1" and "4".
Paul Mellon Collection
Catching Sight: The World of British Sporting Print, VMFA, August 31, 2013 - July 13, 2014
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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