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On the High Fortress in Salzburg ("Auf der hohen Feste [Festung] in Salzburg")
1819
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching; second state
- Dimensions
- plate: 5 x 7 in. sheet: 8 1/2 x 10 3/8 in.
- Collection no.
- 49.21.31
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Johann Christoph Erhard. On the High Fortress in Salzburg ("Auf der hohen Feste [Festung] in Salzburg"). Johann Christoph Erhard; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
On the High Fortress in Salzburg ("Auf der hohen Feste [Festung] in Salzburg") — Johann Christoph Erhard. 1819.
Medium: Etching; second state. Dimensions: plate: 5 x 7 in. sheet: 8 1/2 x 10 3/8 in..
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.