View from Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn

Rudolph Cronau

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Caption

Rudolph Cronau (American, born Germany, 1855–1939). View from Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, 1881. Watercolor and black ink on cream, moderately thick, smooth textured wove paper mounted to pulpboard, 7 13/16 x 9 3/4 in. (19.8 x 24.8 cm) Frame: 16 3/8 x 21 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. (41.6 x 54 x 3.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Gerold Wunderlich, 1996.221. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

View from Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn

Date

1881

Medium

Watercolor and black ink on cream, moderately thick, smooth textured wove paper mounted to pulpboard

Classification

Watercolor

Dimensions

7 13/16 x 9 3/4 in. (19.8 x 24.8 cm) Frame: 16 3/8 x 21 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. (41.6 x 54 x 3.8 cm)

Signatures

Signed lower left corner: "Rud. Cronau. / Brooklyn, 81"

Inscriptions

Inscribed lower right: "Partie vom Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn."; inscribed verso in black ink: "On Greenwood Cemetery near Brooklyn, N.Y. / Drawing made by Rudolf Cronau 1881. / 7 x 9 1/2"; notated bottom center, in pencil: "65"

Credit Line

Gift of Gerold Wunderlich

Accession Number

1996.221

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