Dresden from the Banks of the Elbe River
1782
Artist, Swiss, 1734 - 1816

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black ink with gray wash and watercolor over traces of graphite on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 29.1 x 47.1 cm (11 7/16 x 18 9/16 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.185
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Kunsthandlung Peter H. Fichter, Frankfurt-am-Main), in 1996. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2010
German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010, 126-127, no. 37, under nos. 38 and 69.
Bibliography
2010
Weisheit-Possél, Sabine. "Adrian Zingg (1734-1816): Landschaftsgraphik zwischen Aufklärung und Romantik." Published dissertation (Freie Universität Berlin, 2008), LIT Verlag, Münster, 2010: 161, n. 74.
2015
Sale cat., Sotheby's, London. Old Master & British Drawings. 8 July 2015: 190, under no. 204
Inscriptions
signed and dated at bottom right in gray-black ink: A. Zingg del. Dresde 1782
Watermarks
Strasburg Bend and Lily
Wikidata ID
Q64533408