Bound volume of sixty-one drawings (bucolic scenes, farm buildings, river landscapes, tree studies, etc.)
Jacob Philipp Hackert
(German, 1737–1807)
about 1766
Medium/TechniqueSketchbook bound in green leather, 60 folios, 59 with drawings, about half executed in graphite, and half in pen and black ink with brush and gray (or brown) wash, a few in red chalk, many finished with watercolor.
DimensionsSketchbook (closed): 18 x 25 x 3 cm (7 1/16 x 9 13/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Each sheet: 17.5 x 24 cm (6 7/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
Each sheet: 17.5 x 24 cm (6 7/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Joseph H. Clark
Accession number12.374
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDrawings
Collections
ProvenanceCollection of Freiherr C. F. L. F. von Rumohr [German art historian Karl Friedrich von Rumohr, 1785–1843, Lugt 2160]; his sale, Dresden, October 19-29, 1846 [collection catalogued by J. G. A. Frenzel, Director of the Kupferstichkabinett Dresden]; Joseph H. Clark; his gift to the MFA, 1912
Unidentified artist, French, 16th century