GERMAN SCHOOL, EARLY 19TH-CENTURY

View of the Ruined Library Tower of Heidelberg Castle.

Pencil and brush and brown ink and wash with white heightening, circa 1820. 240x355 mm; 9 1/2x14 inches. With an identifying inscription in Italian in black ink, lower center recto.

This view was made popular by Ernest Fries (1801-1833) lithograph, published as part of the series Sechs Ansichten des Heidelberger Schlosses, auf Stein gezeichnet, 1820.