id:			149998
accession number:	1980.218
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.218
updated:		2025-06-11 11:04:26.442000

Outer Staircase of a Gothic Ruin, 1830. Domenico Quaglio (German, 1787–1837). Gray and brown wash and framing lines in pen and black ink; sheet: 24.1 x 16.8 cm (9 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.); image: 23.2 x 15.2 cm (9 1/8 x 6 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous gift in honor of Leona E. Prasse, 1980.218

title:				Outer Staircase of a Gothic Ruin
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series:				
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creation date:			1830
creation date earliest:		1830
creation date latest:		1830
current location:		
creditline:			Anonymous gift in honor of Leona E. Prasse
copyright:			

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culture:	Germany, 19th century
technique:	gray and brown wash and framing lines in pen and black ink
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - German
type:		Drawing
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catalogue raisonne: Trost 195

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CREATORS

* Domenico Quaglio (German, 1787–1837)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 24.1 x 16.8 cm (9 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.); Image: 23.2 x 15.2 cm (9 1/8 x 6 in.)
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support materials:

	description:	cream wove paper
	watermarks:	
			* Whatman/Turkey Mill
			

inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed, on verso, at lower right, in graphite: D. Quaglio f. in Decbr. 1830; inscribed, at lower left, in graphite: Domenico Quaglio d. F. [paraph: ey?] / 1786-1837; inscribed, at lower center, in graphite: Ansicht einer Ruine in / Meillerie Villaneuve des / gez. Dez. 1830; inscribed, at lower right, in graphite: Linken Ufer des Genfer see
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1980
	opening date:   1981-06-24T04:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1980</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).

	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:		Stories from Storage
	opening date:   2021-02-06T05:00:00
	<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

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Trost, Brigitte. <em>Domenico Quaglio, 1787-1837: Monographie und Werkverzeichnis</em>. Munich: Prestel, 1973.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 138, no. 195b; Reproduced: p. 55, pl. VII
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	Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1980.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 68, no. 6 (June 1981): 163–219.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 195; Mentioned: p. 217, no. 228
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159730

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IMAGES

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