A goatherd playing a pipe on the banks of a river by an estuary. Aquatint by M. Dubourg, 1809, after W.M. Craig after Claude Lorraine.

London (Bond Street, the corner of Brook Street) : Published ... by Edw.d Orme printseller to the King, engraver and publisher, Jan.y 12 1809.

1 print : aquatint ; platemark 41.8 x 47.5 cm

Painted by Claude le Lorraine ; Drawn by W.M. Craig ; Engraved by M. Dubourg.

D. Cecchi, L'opera completa di Claude Lorrain, Milan: Rizzoli, 1975, pp. 119-120, no. 245

Wellcome Collection 3055142i

After a painting in the possession of the Ruffo family, Messina, up to the death on 11 March 1808 of Don Giovanni Ruffo (1751-1808), 7th Principe della Scaletta, Messina; acquired by Charles Kinnaird (1780-1826), 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture, Perth and Kinross. According to the Oxford dictionary of national biography, "Kinnaird travelled much on the continent and was an avaricious buyer of works of art dispersed during the Napoleonic wars; ... He was said to have given extravagant sums for what he regarded as his best pictures (which included works by Titian, Poussin, Teniers, and Rubens), with the result that in 1813 he was forced to sell his London possessions ... Some of the remnant of the collection he sold to the National Gallery and the rest were brought together at Rossie Priory. Kinnaird died on 12 December 1826 in Regency Square, Brighton". The painting acquired from Ruffo was sold at Kinnaird's sale of sixteen old master paintings at Phillips, London, 21 May 1811, lot 11, as 'An elegant Italian landscape': the present aquatint by Dubourg was therefore produced soon after the painting had been acquired by Kinnaird. The painting subsequently passed to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, where called successively 'Landscape with a piping goatherd' and 'Landscape with a piping shepherd' (website of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, accessed on 20 August 2018)