A landscape in which Cephalus is returned to his wife Procris by his lover Aurora. Engraving by J. Browne, 1777, after Claude Lorrain.

1777

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 42.6 x 57.4 cm

Painted by Claude. Etched by J. Browne 1777

[State in which the figures and landscape have been completed but the imprint, dedication and arms have not yet been engraved].

An alphabetical catalogue of plates, engraved by the most esteemed artists, after the finest pictures and drawings of the Italian, Flemish ... and other schools, which compose the stock of John and Josiah Boydell, Volume 2, London 1803, p. 10, no. 11 (as "Cephalus and Procris")

D. Cecchi, L'opera completa di Claude Lorrain, Milan: Rizzoli, 1975, p. 118, no. 234

Wellcome Collection 3063577i

After a painting in the opposite direction that had been in the collection of Clive of India (Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey) before his suicide in 1774, and subsequently passed by descent to the 3rd Earl of Plymouth (d. 2018)