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The image displays a rocky landscape with scattered trees and a path leading to a rock formation with a religious icon. Fine pencil strokes depict detailed textures of foliage and rocks, with a monochrome palette of varying shades of gray creating depth and realism.
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The image displays a rocky landscape with scattered trees and a path leading to a rock formation with a religious icon. Fine pencil strokes depict detailed textures of foliage and rocks, with a monochrome palette of varying shades of gray creating depth and realism.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Wayside Shrine Carved into a Rocky Tor

Friedrich Philipp Reinhold

Date
1821
Medium
graphite on cream laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 25.8 x 36.1 cm (10 3/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2001.46.1
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Time span
1801 to 1825
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • religious
  • German
  • Germany
  • landscape
Provenance

Gr. Hintermayer (not in Lugt). (Joseph Fach OHG, Frankfurt am Main); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Inscription

by the artist, lower left in graphite: F. Reinhold 1821; by the artist, lower right in graphite: Hirchberg.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: XIII--99 Doro BALL/SBAA / Gr. Hintermayer

NGA object ID 118878. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.