1898.596: Landscape with Cottage and Stream

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1898.596

People

Franz Kobell, German (Mannheim 1749 - 1822 Munich)

Title

Landscape with Cottage and Stream

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Village Landscape with a Gorge and a Small Waterfall

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

18th-19th century

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/299225

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown and black ink with gray and brown washes and black chalk underdrawing on cream paper

Dimensions

actual: 12.8 x 17.9 cm (5 1/16 x 7 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: A crown above a circle of elaborate design [fragmentary]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Von Quandt. John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall

Accession Year

1898

Object Number

1898.596

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. 16

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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