id: 393219
accession number: 2020.225
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View from the Battery towards the City, 1836. Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish, 1783–1853). Graphite, pen and black and gray ink, and brush and gray wash on wove paper; sheet: 18.5 x 31.5 cm (7 5/16 x 12 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2020.225
title: View from the Battery towards the City
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creation date: 1836
creation date earliest: 1836
creation date latest: 1836
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creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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culture: Denmark, 19th century
technique: graphite, pen and black and gray ink, and brush and gray wash on wove paper
department: Drawings
collection: DR - Misc. Countries
type: Drawing
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CREATORS
* Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish, 1783–1853) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 18.5 x 31.5 cm (7 5/16 x 12 3/8 in.)
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inscription: signed and dated, at lower right: Eckersberg fec. 1836; inscribed on verso: Eckersberg 7 Sept. 1836; perspective indications in graphite across lower border at 4 cm intervals; vertical line through center
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Melbye: Maler des Meeres, Painter of the Ocean. Altonaer Museum, Hamburg (September 20, 2017 - February 4, 2018).', 'opening_date': '2017-09-20T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Estate of the artist [1785-1853], Copenhagen, Denmark
date: 1836-1853
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(his sale, Copenhagen, January 1854, no. 375)
date: 1854
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Private collection, Denmark
date: ?-2015
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(sale, Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, November 24, 2015, no. 61)
date: November 24, 2015
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(Le Claire Kunst, Hamburg, Germany, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-2020
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2020-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Conisbee, Philip, Kasper Monrad, and Lene Bøgh Rønberg. Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1783-1853. Exh. Cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2003.
page number: Mentioned: p. 145
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C.W. Eckersbergs dagbøger 1870-1837. Vol. 1 (Copenhagen: Nyt Nordisk, 2009).
page number: Mentioned: p. 703
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Dauschek, Anja. Regine Gerhardt, and Vanessa Hirsch. Melbye: Maler des Meeres, Painter of the Ocean. Exh. Cat. Hamburg: Altonaer Museum, 2017.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 65, 96
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Kehlembeck, Gerhard and Thomas le Claire. The Danish Golden Age: Ten Drawings from Private Collections. Hamburg: Le Claire Kunst, 2019
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 6
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IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.225/2020.225_web.jpg
print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.225/2020.225_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.225/2020.225_full.tif