Ruins of a Fortified Tower among Wooded Hills

Friedrich Salathé, 1816/1821

The image shows a landscape with a tall, ancient tower standing amid a rolling terrain. The horizon is high in the composition, allowing more of the landscape and the structure to be visible. The brushstrokes are… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Friedrich Salathé ¹
Date: 1816/1821 ¹
Medium: watercolor over graphite on two sheets of laid paper ¹
Original: 3,991 × 3,537 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, New Century Fund

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