
Edge of a Wood near Frascati
Purchase, Alain and Marie-Christine van den Broek d'Obrenan Gift, 2008
Catalogue
- Year
- 1824
- Dimensions
- sheet: 10 15/16 x 15 1/8 in. (27.8 x 38.4 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Ernst Fries
Artist

Painting
Ernst Fries was a German painter, draftsman, watercolourist, etcher, printmaker, and lithograph. Besides Karl Philipp Fohr and Carl Rottmann, he was the youngest of the so-called triumvirate of Heidelberg Romanticism. His works represent a transition from Romanticism to Realism.
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Six Views of Heidelberg Castle: Wrapper
1820 · gray paper wrapper for bound group of 6 lithographs with etched and engraved cover
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Ernst Fries
- Year
- 1824
- Dimensions
- sheet: 10 15/16 x 15 1/8 in. (27.8 x 38.4 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1824-628186
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified