1898.158: Landscape with a Farm Building and a Ruin

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1898.158

People

copy after Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, German (1712 - 1774)

Title

Landscape with a Farm Building and a Ruin

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Peasant's Farm

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

18th century

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/312389

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink over traces of graphite on cream wove paper

Dimensions

22.5 x 30.2 cm (8 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: Inscribed on mount in graphite: Dietrich original see etching in col. JWR [John Witt Randall]. The original drawing of Dietrich from which he made his well known etching. From the collection of Professor Lindner of Leipsic (178 cat. of Dr. Frenzel) Dietrich fecit 1712-74. 19th c. copy of Etching.
• inscription: graphite, attached to mount: Deitrich original, see etching in col. JWR the original drawing of Deitrich from which he made his well known etching. From the collection of Professor Lindner of Leipsic (178 cat. of Dr. Frenzel) Dietrich fecit 1712-74. 19th c. copy of Etching; on the mount: 112; 1898.158; crossed out: 143

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Lindner collection, 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

1898.158

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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