Art, literature & history
Ruins of a Fortified Tower among Wooded Hills
1816/1821
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 45.8 x 60 cm (18 1/16 x 23 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2007.111.154
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Friedrich Salathé. Ruins of a Fortified Tower among Wooded Hills. Friedrich Salathé; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Friedrich_Salath%C3%A9,_Ruins_of_a_Fortified_Tower_among_Wooded_Hills,_1816-1821,_NGA_139281.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Ruins of a Fortified Tower among Wooded Hills — Friedrich Salathé. 1816/1821.
Medium: watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 45.8 x 60 cm (18 1/16 x 23 5/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2007.111.154. Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.