Farm with Trees in a Hilly Landscape (recto)
Medium
pen and brown ink (iron gall)
Dimensions
sheet: 14.4 × 21.2 cm · secondary support: 22.4 × 28.7 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
1997.37.a
Tags
male
About this artwork
Gherardo Cibo was more botanist than professional artist. The compiler of at least five volumes of dried plant specimens collected in the Marches (central-eastern) region of Italy, Cibo made drawings in order to record the habitats where he collected plants. He executed this drawing in the field, annotating at upper left the dried cornflower (concia fior da liso) he had gathered on the spot. Though Cibo learned to draw landscapes at an early age when he visited Northern Europe, this sheet reveal...