id:			144221
accession number:	1968.69
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.69
updated:		2024-03-26 01:59:22.212000

Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples from a Cave, 1820. Adolf von Heydeck (German, 1787–1856). Watercolor with graphite; framing lines in pen and black ink; sheet: 26.9 x 37.9 cm (10 9/16 x 14 15/16 in.); secondary support: 27.5 x 37.9 cm (10 13/16 x 14 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John B. Putnam Foundation 1968.69

title:				Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples from a Cave
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creation date:			1820
creation date earliest:		1820
creation date latest:		1820
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creditline:			Gift of the John B. Putnam Foundation
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culture:	Germany, 19th century
technique:	watercolor with graphite; framing lines in pen and black ink
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - German
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Adolf von Heydeck (German, 1787–1856)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 26.9 x 37.9 cm (10 9/16 x 14 15/16 in.); Secondary Support: 27.5 x 37.9 cm (10 13/16 x 14 15/16 in.)
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	description:	cream wove paper laid down on gray-blue laid paper (artist's mount?)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	inscribed on secondary support [by artist?], lower right, in graphite: al Posilipo A Napoli 1820; on verso of secondary support, upper left, in graphite: 44/ ; upper left, in graphite: Al Posilipo a Napoli
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	inscription:	unidentified collector's mark, verso of secondary support, upper right, stamped in blue ink: H [illegible] [surrounded by an oval double border]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1968
	opening date:   1969-01-29T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1968</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).

	title:		German Drawings of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries
	opening date:   1980-04-01T05:00:00
	<i>German Drawings of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (April 1-July 13, 1980).

	title:		Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   1982-11-16T05:00:00
	<i>Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1982-January 9, 1983).

	title:		National Schools of Style
	opening date:   1983-06-14T04:00:00
	<i>National Schools of Style</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983).

	title:		Eastward from the Rhine: Romanticism to Abstraction, 1800-1925
	opening date:   1984-06-12T04:00:00
	<i>Eastward from the Rhine: Romanticism to Abstraction, 1800-1925</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 12-September 9, 1984).

	title:		The German Tradition
	opening date:   1993-04-27T04:00:00
	<i>The German Tradition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-June 27, 1993).

	title:		Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century
	opening date:   2004-08-15T00:00:00
	<i>Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004).

	title:		The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection
	opening date:   2012-09-03T00:00:00
	<i>The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-July 7, 2013).

	title:		Stories From Storage
	opening date:   2021-02-07T05:00:00
	<i>Stories From Storage</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: ?-1968
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1968-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Porzio, Annalisa and Marina Causa Picone. <em>Goethe e i suoi interlocutori</em>. Exh. Cat. Naples: Palazzo Reale, 1983.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 167, no. 56; Reproduced: p. 225
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IMAGES

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