DrawingsGerman18th century

Landscape with a Farm Building and a Ruin

18th century

Artists

Christian Wilhelm Ernst DietrichArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black ink over traces of graphite on cream wove paper

Culture

German

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

22.5 x 30.2 cm (8 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Lindner collection, Leipzig; John Witt Randall, Boston, MA; bequest to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892; gift to Harvard University, 1892.

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