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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.96
People
Ferdinand Kobell, German (Mannheim, Germany 1740 - 1799 Munich, Germany)
Title
Landscape with Cows
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312392

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and gray wash over graphite on off-white paper
Dimensions
18.8 x 27 cm (7 3/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Ferd. Kobell
  • inscription: verso, lower right, ink: No 11

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
1898.96
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. 418
  • 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. 74, fig. 5

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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