Landscape with Tethered Bull, 1777

Title

Landscape with Tethered Bull

Draughtsman

• Bernhard Heinrich Thier

Period Produced

• 18th century

Object Type

• drawing

Physical Description

Brush and grey and black ink and some green (in leaves in foreground), partially gone over with brush and gum (arabic?), over black chalk or charcoal

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• chalk?
• Vergé paper

Technique

• brush drawing
• washing
• pencil drawing
• chalk drawing?

Geographic Reference

• Netherlandish

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• autonomous drawing?

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Signiert und datiert unten rechts (mit der Feder in Grau): B. H. Thier 1777

Captions Added Later

Verso unten links Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• landscape
• animal depiction

Primary

• 47I2111 bull
• 47I2112 cow
• 25G3 trees
• 25I3(+1) farm or solitary house in landscape (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)