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View from the Battery toward the City, 1836. graphite, pen and black and gray ink, and brush and gray wash on wove paper.
graphite, pen and black and gray ink, and brush and gray wash on wove paper · Sheet: 18.5 x 31.5 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- View from the Battery toward the City
- Artist
- Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish, 1783–1853)
- Date
- 1836
- Medium
- graphite, pen and black and gray ink, and brush and gray wash on wove paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 18.5 x 31.5 cm (7 5/16 x 12 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1783–1853
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.