Round Tower, Castle of Munoth, Schafhausen, Switzerland

Cleveland Museum of Art

Round Tower, Castle of Munoth, Schafhausen, Switzerland

John William Casilear

Date
1842
Medium
graphite and orange and yellow crayon, with traces of black and white paint
Culture
America
Department
Drawings
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

Casilear began his career as an engraver but shifted to landscape painting at the suggestion of his friend, the painter Asher B. Durand (1796–1866). He made this drawing while traveling in Europe with Durand and another New York landscape painter, John Frederick Kensett (1816–1872).

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