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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.93
People
Ferdinand Kobell, German (Mannheim, Germany 1740 - 1799 Munich, Germany)
Title
Landscape with River and Houses
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Landscape with River and Houses
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312419

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink over graphite on white antique laid paper
Dimensions
15.8 × 20 cm (6 1/4 × 7 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: A crown above a circle of elaborate design [fragmentary]

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
1898.93
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. 415
  • 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. 75
  • 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. 12

Exhibition History

  • 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

Verification Level

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