Diogenes and Alexander; verso: Caricatures of a Cat

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1898.15
People: Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder, German (Haina, Germany 1722 - 1789 Kassel, Germany)
Title: Diogenes and Alexander; verso: Caricatures of a Cat
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 18th century
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/312453

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on white paper; verso: black chalk

Dimensions

27 x 18.5 cm (10 5/8 x 7 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

watermark: sunflower with letter N below (Mongan-Sachs W. 48)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Lindner collection. 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: 1898.15
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. 424
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. 137

Verification Level

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