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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.77
People
Adrian Ludwig Richter, German (Dresden, Germany 1803 - 1884 Dresden, Germany)
Title
View of the Elbe with the Town of Aussig in the Foreground and the Schreckenstein at the Turn of the River
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312409

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on cream paper
Dimensions
22.4 x 36.1 cm (8 13/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: CFAF [Mongan-Sachs W. 49]

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
1898.77
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. 450, fig. 227
  • 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

Verification Level

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