Tower with Man Walking
Philipp Hackert
1797
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with graphite on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Max: 55.5 × 44.3 cm (21 7/8 × 17 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- Prints and drawing
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)prints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
The German Romantic artist Jacob Philipp Hackert was fascinated by Italy, and he became court painter of King Ferdinand IV of Naples. He specialized in landscape painting, particularly scenes of Classical ruins.
