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Adrian Zingg
1734-1816
View of the Castle Hirschstein on the Elbe
1794
Pen and black ink and brown wash.
18 15/16 x 24 7/8 inches (480 x 631 mm); in decorative frame: 26 1/2 x 32 1/8 x 2 inches
Thaw Collection.
2017.269
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Signed at lower left, in pen and black ink, "A. Zingg ad Nat: / del."; signed at lower center on a rock, in pen and black ink, "A. Zingg ad Nat. del / 1794."; inscribed on verso, near lower margin, in pen and black ink, "Hirschstein bei Meissen?"
Provenance:
Sale, Sotheby's, Zurich, 29 May 2000, lot 10, repr. (as Zingg, "Schloss am See"); August Laube Buch- und Kunstantiquariut, Zurich; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
Bibliography:
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 403, repr.
The Thaw collection of master drawings : acquisitions since 2002. New York : Morgan Library & Museum, 2009, no. 24, repr.
Associated names:
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
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