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Eastern Coast of Rügen with Shepherd

1805–6
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Object Information
  • Title: Eastern Coast of Rügen with Shepherd
  • Artist: Caspar David Friedrich (German, Greifswald 1774–1840 Dresden)
  • Date: 1805–6
  • Medium: Brown ink and wash over pencil, with white opaque watercolor, on wove paper; partial framing line in brown-black ink
  • Dimensions: 24 1/4 x 39 inches (61.6 x 99 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Purchase, several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts and Fletcher Fund, and Promised Gift of Leon D. and Debra R. Black, 2002
  • Object Number: 2002.260
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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