Jan 24, 2005 - Sale 2030

Sale 2030 - Lot 237

Price Realized: $ 575
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
GERMAN SCHOOL, EARLY 19TH-CENTURY
View of the Ruined Library Tower of Heidelberg Castle.

Pencil and brush and brown ink and wash with white heightening, circa 1820. 240x355 mm; 91/2x14 inches. With an identifying inscription in Italian in black ink, lower center recto.

This view was made popular by Ernest Fries (1801-1833) lithograph, published as part of the series Sechs Ansichten des Heidelberger Schlosses, auf Stein gezeichnet, 1820.