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    "label": "View across the Moat towards the Thomasschule and the Thomaskirche in Leipzig",
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    "id": "453030",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "View across the Moat towards the Thomasschule and the Thomaskirche in Leipzig",
    "description": "Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld belonged to the Nazarenes, a group of artists who looked to early Northern Renaissance art for its simplicity and piety. The artist created this drawing during a visit to his native Leipzig en route to join the Nazarenes in Rome. He depicted the city’s distinctive features, including the oldest German language school in Europe (of which he was an alumnus) and a church where Johann Sebastian Bach served as cantor during the 18th century. The artist himself appears in a self-portrait at right in the pair seen at lower left. He juxtaposed loosely sketched landscape with areas of profuse detail, created with a hard and sharpened pencil reinforced with pen and ink.",
    "date": "1817",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.1",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Support: 31 x 38.6 x 0.2 cm (12 3/16 x 15 3/16 x 1/16 in.); Image: 15.7 x 23.8 cm (6 3/16 x 9 3/8 in.)",
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    "tec": "Pen and black ink and graphite on ivory wove paper",
    "tombstone": "View across the Moat towards the Thomasschule and the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, 1817. Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (German, 1794–1872). Pen and black ink and graphite on ivory wove paper; support: 31 x 38.6 x 0.2 cm (12 3/16 x 15 3/16 x 1/16 in.); image: 15.7 x 23.8 cm (6 3/16 x 9 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2022.1",
    "collection": "DR - German",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "Inscribed and dated at lower left: Leipzig 1817 M. July"
        },
        {
            "inscription": "stamped at lower right on verso in blue ink: mark of Carl Heumann collection (Lugt 2841a)"
        },
        {
            "inscription": "watermark: H * O S E R [unidentified]"
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "The landscape in this drawing is seen from the perspective of Schnorr von Carolsfeld’s family home in Leipzig.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "<em>Deutsche Landscaftskunst, 1750–1850: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle aus der Sammlung Heumann, Chemnitz</em>. Exh. Cat. Breslau: Schlesisches Museum der Bildenden Künste, 1933.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned no. 135"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Zeichenkunst der deutschen Romantik</em>. Exh. Cat. Wiesbaden: Nassauisches Landesmusuem, 1937.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: 30, no. 282"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Göpel, Erhard. “Deutsche Künstler zeichnen in Leipzig.” <em>Leipziger Jahrbuch </em>14 (1939).",
            "page_number": "Mentioned p. 134–36"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Kunst des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts: Sammlung Heumann, Chemnitz</em>. Stuttgart: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinetts, 1957.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 66, no. 320; Reproduced: pl. 18"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Göpel, Erhard. “Eine unbekannte Ansicht Leipzigs” <em>Neue Lepipziger Zeitung</em> 249, no. 6 (September 6, 1933).",
            "page_number": "reproduced"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Mehnert, Karl Hein. “Eine wiederentdeckte Stadtansicht: Zur Ausstellung Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld im Museum der bildenden Künste.” <em>Leipziger Blatter</em> 27 (Spring 1994).",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 74; Mentioned: p. 75."
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1794–1872</em>. Exh. Cat. Leipzig: Museum der Bildenden Künste, 1994.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: 197–98, no. 27; Reproduced: p. 97"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.1",
    "creditline": "Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 09:04:21.229000",
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    "coll": "DR - German",
    "med": "Pen and black ink and graphite on ivory wove paper",
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