Rothenburg, Germany
Medium
Black ink and graphite traces on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
9 13/16 x 13 1/16 in. (24.9 x 33.2 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Andrew Fisher Bunner, 1899
Accession Number
99.38.59
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About this artwork
This drawing captures a view of Rothenburg, Germany, executed in black ink with graphite traces on off-white laid paper by American artist Andrew Fisher Bunner in 1876. The work depicts architectural elements from the medieval German town, rendered with the precision and attention to detail characteristic of Bunner's European sketches. Bunner created multiple studies of Rothenburg during his 1876 visit, documenting the town's historic buildings and streetscapes. As an American landscape painter ...
About the Artist
Andrew Fisher Bunner · 1841–1897
Andrew Fisher Bunner (1841–1897) was an American painter and draughtsman whose luminous watercolors of Venice and the Long Island shore earned him a distinguished reputation among his contemporaries. Born on December 27, 1841, in New York, he studied at the art school founded by Thomas Seir Cummings and took an antique drawing class at the National Academy of Design from 1862 to 1863. By 1865 he w...