About the Artwork
Fantastic Landscape with a Tower
between 1762 and 1844
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison
1762-1844
Italian
Unknown
Pen and brown ink with brown wash on heavy buff laid paper
Sheet: 10 7/16 × 16 13/16 inches (26.5 × 42.7 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
City of Detroit Purchase
34.190
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, verso, lower right: 73
Provenance
Arnold Seligman (New York, New York, USA)
1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 93, no. 40.
Morassi, Antonio. Guardi: Tutti I Disegni Di Antonio Francesco E Giacomo Guardi. Venice, 1975, p. 184 (as "weak and probably not autograph" [with reference to Francesco Guardi]).
New York 1971, no. 204.
"Rearrangements of the Museum's Collections." Bulletin of the DIA 14, no. 2 (November 1934): pp. 28-30, p. 29 (ill.). [as by Francesco Guardi.]
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Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Fantastic Landscape with a Tower, between 1762 and 1844, pen and brown ink with brown wash on heavy buff laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 34.190.
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