The Horrors of War: A Sea Battle, 1742/1744

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite, incised throughout and verso reddened for transfer, on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 30.6 x 20.2 cm (12 1/16 x 7 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.97

Artists / Makers

Gottfried Bernhard Götz (artist) German, 1708 - 1774

Image Use

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Provenance

Nathan Chaikin [b. 1887], Vaud, Switzerland. David Daniels [1907-2002], New York; (his sale, Sotheby's London, 25 April 1978, no. 45). Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Chaikin, Nathan, Mr.
Daniels, David
Sotheby's, London
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 36, no. 19, under no. 21.

Bibliography

1982: Isphording, Eduard. Gottfried Bernhard Göz, 1708-1774. Ölgemälde und Zeichnungen. Weissenhorn, 1982,1: 251, no. A III a 58 a; 2: fig. 157.