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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.79
People
Adrian Ludwig Richter, German (Dresden, Germany 1803 - 1884 Dresden, Germany)
Title
View of the Elbe and the Hofkirche from the Brühl Terrace, Dresden; verso: Dresden
Other Titles
Alternate Title: View of Horkirch and River, Dresden; verso: View of Dresden
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1820
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312444

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on white wove paper
Dimensions
30.6 × 48.7 cm (12 1/16 × 19 3/16 in.)

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
1898.79
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. 441, fig. 220
  • 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. 31

Exhibition History

  • 19th-Century German Drawings and Watercolors, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 07/01/1981 - 08/31/1981
  • 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

Verification Level

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