Italian Town with River (recto); View of a Town (verso)
Friedrich Nerly
n.d.
Medium
Pen and black ink, over graphite, on cream laid paper
Dimensions
12.5 × 8.3 cm (4 15/16 × 3 5/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113854
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Friedrich Nerly · 1807–1878
**Friedrich von Nerly** (originally Christian Friedrich Nehrlich, 1807–1878) was a German Romantic painter best known for his luminous vedute of Venice, where he spent most of his adult life. Born in Erfurt to a postal official who died young, he moved at age eight to Hamburg to live with relatives. There he received early drawing instruction from his aunt and later from his uncle, the lithographe...