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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.182
People
Johann Christoph Dietzsch, German (1710 - 1769)
Title
Country Landscape with Two Men on Horseback
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299483

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and brown ink, gray and brown wash, and white gouache on blue antique laid paper
Dimensions
sight: 17.3 x 24.8 cm (6 13/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., white gouache: J.C.D.
  • inscription: on mount, graphite: Joh Christ Dietsch Fecit / from the collection of M. Lindner / professor of Philosophy at Leipsic / 450 / J.C. Dietsch Follower of Waterloo/ g/l [?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Lindner, Leipzig; 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
1898.182
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William W. Robinson, "John Witt Randall: An Early American Collector of Later German Drawings", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 2001), vol. 39, no. 2, Summer, pp. 159-168, fig. 5, p. 162

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