Mushrooms

Inscriptions

VERSO, signed, across bottom, in brown ink: G.W. Baurenfeind ad vivum pinxit 14. Maij 1751 / [illegible] Zeichnüng [illegible]Unterschrift ; lower right, in graphite: [-Re-?]

Exhibition history

German Drawings of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art (April 1-July 13, 1980). The Perennial Garden: 18th and 19th Century Botanical Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 3-July 31, 1983). The Flowering of the Botanical Print. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-July 3, 2016).

Quick Overview

Artist: Georg Wilhelm Baurenfeind (German, c. 1710–1763)
Date: 1751
Medium: brush and brown wash and gouache
Dimensions: Sheet: 11.9 x 20.3 cm (4 11/16 x 8 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawing
Department: Drawings
Credit line: Bequest of Walter Blodgett
Accession no.: 1975.257

Provenance

The Cleveland Museum of Art’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.

Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.