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View from My Window in Rome (recto)
Also known as: View from the Artist's Window in Rome (recto)
About the Artwork
Carl Ludwig Tischbein was one of many artists who traveled from across Europe to Rome during the early 19th century and drew upon the city’s ancient past and its surrounding landscape for inspiration. This spare drawing uses Tischbein's window as a compositional device, framing a casual view of rooftops and walled gardens populated by a variety of plants and a small cat.
Inscriptions
inscribed by artist, upper right, in graphite: Aus meinem Fenster in Rom.; center left, in graphite: H. Peter; inscribed on former mount (now removed), in black ink: Karl Ludwig Tischbein / 1797-1855 / [g]arantiert für Echtheit
Provenance
?-1974: Shepherd Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
Exhibition history
Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004). Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Carl Ludwig Tischbein (German, 1797–1855)
- Date
- c. 1819
- Medium
- graphite and pen and gray ink, framing lines in pen and black ink and graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 22.4 x 17.1 cm (8 13/16 x 6 3/4 in.); Image: 20.5 x 16.8 cm (8 1/16 x 6 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Lawrence Hitchcock Fund
- Accession no.
- 1974.21.a
More by Carl Ludwig Tischbein in museum collections
View from My Window in Rome (recto) Soldier in a Landscape (verso)
Carl Ludwig Tischbeinc. 1817 · Drawing
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011165
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