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Three Beavers Building a Dam
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, upper right, in graphite: "38" [changed to 58]; verso, lower left, in pen and black ink: "Th.V.58."
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 80, cat. 51 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Publications
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 80, cat. 51 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- J. H. W. Tischbein / German, 1751–1829
- Date
- c. 1800
- Medium
- Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and touches of black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper, with a pieced overlapping border toned with brown watercolor
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 32.5 × 40.2 cm (12 13/16 × 15 7/8 in.); Sheet with border: 40.5 × 47.9 cm (16 × 18 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.1034
Provenance
Estate of the artist [stamp (J.H.W. Tischbein; not in Lugt) verso, lower left, in black]; sold, Christie’s, New York, Jan. 22, 2003, lot 137, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00005942
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