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Ruins of a Fortified Tower among Wooded Hills [recto]

Friedrich Salathé · 1816/1821

Friedrich Salathé: Swiss, 1793 - 1858

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Ruins of a Fortified Tower among Wooded Hills [recto]

1816/1821

brown wash and watercolor over graphite on wove paper · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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brown wash and watercolor over graphite on wove paper
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overall: 30.1 x 41.4 cm (11 7/8 x 16 5/16 in.)
Collection no.
2002.47.1.a
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Friedrich Salathé. Ruins of a Fortified Tower among Wooded Hills [recto]. 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_(recto),_1816-1821,_NGA_124955.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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Ruins of a Fortified Tower among Wooded Hills [recto] — Friedrich Salathé. 1816/1821.

Medium: brown wash and watercolor over graphite on wove paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 30.1 x 41.4 cm (11 7/8 x 16 5/16 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2002.47.1.a. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Meissner.

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.

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Friedrich Salathé. Ruins of a Fortified Tower among Wooded Hills [recto]. 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_(recto),_1816-1821,_NGA_124955.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.