1988.447: Bank with Sweet Coltsfoot, Blossoming Reed-grass, and other Plants

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1988.447

People

Adrian Zingg, Swiss (St. Gall, Switzerland 1734 - 1816 Leipzig, Germany)

Title

Bank with Sweet Coltsfoot, Blossoming Reed-grass, and other Plants

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

18th-19th century

Culture

Swiss

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/295107

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown and black ink, brown wash over black chalk on off-white paper, laid down

Dimensions

23.2 x 34.8 cm (9 1/8 x 13 11/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund

Accession Year

1988

Object Number

1988.447

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• William W. Robinson, Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), checklist no. 42, repr. (color)
• Andrew Robison, "Later American Collectors of Later German Drawings", Master Drawings (Summer 2001), vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 169-190, fig. 12, p. 181
• Andrew Robison, German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection 1580-1900, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, 2010), p. 10

Exhibition History

• Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/04/1998 - 06/28/1998

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