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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.102
People
Jakob Philipp Hackert, German (Prenzlau 1737 - 1807 Florence)
Title
A Ruined Gothic Gate
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299631

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk counterproof on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Counterproof
Dimensions
24.5 × 34.2 cm (9 5/8 × 13 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: [in part:] AUVERGNE 1749 [see Mongan-Sachs W. 45]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Lindner collection. 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
1898.102
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 407
  • Ernst Scheyer, "German Paintings and Drawings from the Time of Goethe in American Collections", The Art Quarterly (Summer 1949), vol. XII, no. 3, pp. 231-250, no. 41
  • Claudia Nordhoff and Hans Reimer, Jakob Philipp Hackert 1737-1807: Verzeichnis seiner Werke, Akademie Verlag (Berlin, Germany, 1994), no. 1133

Exhibition History

  • German Paintings and Drawings from the Time of Goethe in American Collections, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 11/17/1949 - 12/15/1949

Verification Level

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