Landscape with Ornamental Frame

Johann Melchior Füssli Swiss

Former Attribution Formerly attributed to Johann Jakob Scheuchzer

ca. 1730

Not on view

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Title: Landscape with Ornamental Frame
Artist: Johann Melchior Füssli (Swiss, Zurich 1677–1736 Zurich)
Former Attribution: Formerly attributed to Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Date: ca. 1730
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash(landscape)
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash over traces of black chalk (?) underdrawing (frame) Laid paper.
Dimensions: Sheet: 11 5/16 × 7 5/8 in. (28.7 × 19.3 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Philip Hofer, 1942
Object Number: 42.136.4
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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