Tivoli and the Roman Campagna
1820
Artist, German, 1792 - 1875
Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor over graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Gift of Ivan and Winifred Phillips in memory of Philip Conisbee
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Dimensions
sheet: 19.4 x 23.3 cm (7 5/8 x 9 3/16 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.15
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Hollstein und Puppel, Berlin, 26 February 1932, no. 119). (Galerie Barrsch & Chariau, Munich) 1980. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2010
German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 36, 37, no. 65, under no. 41.
Inscriptions
signed and dated at bottom left in graphite: J. A. Klein fec. 1820 a Tivoli; verso, two graphite sketches: a fortress with two crenellated towers of different heights; a bridge
Watermarks
CS resting on two palm branches (not in Churchill, Heawood, or Briquet)
Wikidata ID
Q64581869