Ruins of a Fortified Tower among Wooded Hills, 1816/1821

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over graphite on two sheets of laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 44.4 x 50.2 cm (17 1/2 x 19 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

New Century Fund

Accession Number

2000.73.2

Artists / Makers

Friedrich Salathé (artist) Swiss, 1793 - 1858

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: 34

Provenance

Estate of the artist, Basel 1913, inv. no. 46; Kurt Meissner, Zurich; Stiftung Wolfgang Ratjen, Vaduz; (Katrin Bellinger, Kunsthandel, Munich); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bellinger, Katrin, Ms.
Meissner, Kurt
Ratjen, Wolfgang

Exhibition History

1988: Friedrich Salathé, 1793-1858, ein Zeichner der Romantik, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Hansestadt Lübeck, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1988, no. 119, fig. 45.