Der Gesprengte und der Bibliotheke Thurm von Heidelberger Schloß (The Exploded Tower and the Library of Heidelberg Castle), 1820

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Medium

lithograph with tone plate on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 26.3 × 34 cm (10 3/8 × 13 3/8 in.)

sheet: 32.8 × 36.6 cm (12 15/16 × 14 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Winkler 1975, no. 9, State i/ii

Accession Number

2012.92.204

Artists / Makers

Ernst Fries (artist) German, 1801 - 1833

Image Use

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Inscription

lettered in image, at lower left: EF; lettered below image, at right: Ernst Fries fec. 1820.; lettered below image: Der gesprengte & der Bibliothek Thurm vom Heidelberger Schloße. / Vue des Teurs fendue & de Bibliotheque du Château du Heidelberg.

Provenance

(Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased September 12, 1997; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Galerie Arnoldi-Livie
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.

Exhibition History

2014: Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Bibliography

1975: Winkler, Rolf A. Die Fruhzeit der deutschen Lithographie. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1975: no. 9, i/ii