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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.80
People
Adrian Ludwig Richter, German (Dresden, Germany 1803 - 1884 Dresden, Germany)
Title
View of the Riverbank, the Frauenkirche, the Hofkirche, and the Augustus Bridge, Dresden
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1820
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312390

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 32.9 x 46.8 cm (12 15/16 x 18 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: from old mat, now removed, graphite: Dresden oblique view / Selected from Richter's private portfolio / [cut off] to be Engraved / Ludwig Richter, Pieter Celeberimus, fecit Dresdeniae [?]
  • inscription: from old mat, now removed, graphite: No. 439 / 341. / Dresden: A View from the Riverbank Looking toward / the Frauenkirche, the Hofkirche and the / Augustus bridge.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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
1898.80
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. 439, fig. 218
  • 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. 114
  • 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. 32

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
  • From Mengs to Menzel: 19th-Century German Drawings, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 10/28/1981 - 12/22/1981
  • 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
  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/09/2018 - 09/20/2018

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