Karl Friedrich Lessing
1808-1880
Landscape with a Cemetery and a Church
1837
11 15/32 x 17 19/32 inches (291 x 447 mm)
Pen and brown and black inks, brush and brown ink, brown ink wash, watercolor, opaque watercolor, and graphite with cut and adhered paper correction, on brown wove paper.
1984.38
Gift of Mrs. Werner Abegg.
Notes
Watermark: none.
A strip, 2 7/16 x 13/16 inches (62 x 21 mm) pasted down at center and drawn over.
A strip, 2 7/16 x 13/16 inches (62 x 21 mm) pasted down at center and drawn over.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower center, in pen and brown ink, "C. F. L. / ... [illegible] 1837".
Associated names
Feilchenfeldt, Walter, former owner.
Abegg, Werner, Mrs., former owner.
Abegg, Werner, Mrs., former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 358.
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Century Drawings
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