Ruins of a Fortified Tower among Wooded Hills [recto]
1818
graphite
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
1818
graphite
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Ruins of a Fortified Tower among Wooded Hills [recto] is a 1818 graphite by Friedrich Salathé, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a crumbling stone tower in the middle of a hilly, tree-filled landscape. The tower’s walls are broken, and the trees around it look bare and tangled. In the distance, faint outlines of ships appear on a calm body of water under a soft, cloudy sky. The paper looks worn, with faint pencil lines underneath the watercolor washes. The artist used light brown and blue tones to show shadows and distant hills. Look up Romanticism to see how artists used nature and ruins to tell bigger stories.
![Tower of a Fortified House [recto]](https://pub-3a17a9933ad74fb28aa30fa758592f23.r2.dev/artworks/123693842ba6a52f/thumb.webp)
![Grove of Trees [verso]](https://pub-3a17a9933ad74fb28aa30fa758592f23.r2.dev/artworks/4013b539bd981a94/thumb.webp)
