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The image is a pencil drawing of a landscape with boulders, rocky formations, trees, birds in the sky, and fishermen near a river or stream. The drawing features delicate branches, light brushstrokes, careful shading techniques, and a monochromatic color palette of varying shades of gray and black.
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The image is a pencil drawing of a landscape with boulders, rocky formations, trees, birds in the sky, and fishermen near a river or stream. The drawing features delicate branches, light brushstrokes, careful shading techniques, and a monochromatic color palette of varying shades of gray and black.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Waterfall by Rock Cliffs

Johann Christoph Dietzsch

Date
1750s(?)
Medium
black chalk with gray wash on laid paper, with black ink border
Dimensions
sheet: 30.3 x 22.2 cm (11 15/16 x 8 3/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2012.69.2
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Time span
1726 to 1750
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • landscape
Provenance

Johann Conrad Spengler, Copenhagen (1767-1839)(Lugt 1434); (Joseph Fach Galerie und Kunstantiquariat, Frankfurt); NGA purchase in 2012

Inscription

lower left in boulders: J. C. D; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Cab. d. Sq. / 702; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: Johann Christoph Dietzsch / Nünberg / 754 / VI--9-Bes AOLLI

NGA object ID 158890. 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.