Set of 9 sepia wash drawings
Christoph Heinrich Kniep (Hildesheim 1755 - Naples 1825)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1788
Materials
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Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 355500
Summary
Set of 9 sepia wash drawings. Italian scenes, 1788, by Christoph Heinrich Kniep, 1755-1825. Nine drawings by Goethe’s travelling companion on a visit to southern Italy and Sicily in 1787. Signed and dated in Naples, 1788, they were probably a commission from the 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, who was in Italy on his Grand Tour in 1787, and whose daughter, Harriet, was to marry the 6th Marquess of Lothian in 1806, as his second wife. Kniep was born into a family of artists, but he received his first real artistic training in Hanover under a theatrical set-painter. He had been in Italy for sometime before accompanying Goethe, and remained there until his death, latterly as Professor at the Academy.
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Christoph Heinrich Kniep (Hildesheim 1755 - Naples 1825)