Currently not on view
The Wetterhorn, Grindlewald,
July 27,1842
John William Casilear, American, 1811–1893
x1990-53
One of the lesser-known members of the Hudson River School painters, Casilear was trained as a banknote engraver by Asher B. Durand, the most important American engraver of his generation. In 1840, Casilear and his fellow landscape painter John F. Kensett accompanied Durand on a two-year continental tour of Europe at a time when few American painters traveled abroad. Casilear’s skill as an engraver is evident in the linear precision and tonal clarity of this majestic view of the Wetterhorn Peak in Switzerland.
Information
Title
The Wetterhorn, Grindlewald
Dates
July 27,1842
Maker
Medium
Graphite heightened with white
Dimensions
20.1 x 31.8 cm (7 15/16 x 12 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of Leonard L. Milberg, Class of 1953
Object Number
x1990-53
Place Depicted
Europe, Switzerland, Bern
Inscription
in graphite, lower left: The Wetterhorn | Grindlewald July 27th 1842
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Subject
Old Print Shop, New York; E. Maurice Block, L.A.; his estate sale, Christie's, New York, June 19, 1990, lot 6 (1 of 2).
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1990," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 50, no. 1 (1991): p. 16-69., p. 18, p. 20 (illus.)
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 41, fig. 38
