View from My Window in Rome (recto) (c. 1819): Art, History and Details

View from My Window in Rome (recto) (c. 1819) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Carl Ludwig Tischbein (German, 1797–1855).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: View from My Window in Rome (recto)
• Date: c. 1819
• Creator attribution: Carl Ludwig Tischbein (German, 1797–1855)
• Culture: Germany, 19th century
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: 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.)
• Collection: DR - German
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 1974.21.a

A detail from the museum

Carl Ludwig Tischbein came from a family that produced 28 artists and artisans active in Germany and throughout Europe.

Collection credit

Lawrence Hitchcock Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1974.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 3 (March 1975): 62–102.

View the collection record

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