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A black and white ink and graphite drawing depicts the view of a city from across a riverbank, where multiple figures stand in the foreground.

A black and white ink and graphite drawing depicts the view of a city from across a riverbank. In the foreground, a group of well-dressed figures stand on a hill. Behind them, a group of figures sail on boats along the river. Across the river, there is a long bridge connecting the land on the left and right sides of the image. On the right, there is a large city.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.115
People
Adrian Zingg, Swiss (St. Gall, Switzerland 1734 - 1816 Leipzig, Germany)
Title
View of Dresden
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1788
Culture
Swiss
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/300012

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and gray wash over graphite on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
48.9 x 64.5 cm (19 1/4 x 25 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: C & I HONIG
  • inscription: old mount, in John Witt Randall's hand: Executed by Adrian Zingg for the elder Richter (father of Louis Richter) of Dresden and purchased at the sale of his effects at Dresden.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Carl August Richter, Dresden. John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year
1898
Object Number
1898.115
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. I, cat. no. 430, p. 219, vol. III, fig. 213, repr.
  • Ernst Scheyer, "German Paintings and Drawings from the Time of Goethe in American Collections", The Art Quarterly (Summer 1949), vol. XII, no. 3, pp. 231-250, cat. no. 145
  • Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Central European Drawings, 1680-1800: a Selection from American Collections, exh. cat., Princeton University Art Museum (Princeton, NJ, 1989), cat. no. 102, pp. 18, 22, 268, repr.
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • William W. Robinson, Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), checklist no. 43, repr.
  • Sarah Vure, The John Witt Randall Collection: Seeking the True and the Beautiful, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), checklist no. 37
  • William W. Robinson, "John Witt Randall: An Early American Collector of Later German Drawings", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 2001), vol. 39, no. 2, Summer, pp. 159-168, pp. 162, 164, fig. 1

Exhibition History

  • German Paintings and Drawings from the Time of Goethe in American Collections, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 11/17/1949 - 12/15/1949
  • 19th-Century German Drawings and Watercolors, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 07/01/1981 - 08/31/1981
  • From Mengs to Menzel: 19th-Century German Drawings, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 10/28/1981 - 12/22/1981
  • 19th-Century Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/01/1983 - 10/09/1983
  • Central European Drawings 1680-1800: A Selection from American Collections, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, 10/21/1989 - 12/03/1989; University Art Museum, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 01/10/1990 - 02/25/1990
  • Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/04/1998 - 06/28/1998
  • Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/16/2022 - 01/15/2023

Subjects and Contexts

  • Collection Highlights

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