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John William Casilear

Round Tower, Castle of Munoth, Schafhausen, Switzerland

1842
graphite and orange and yellow crayon, with traces of black and white paint

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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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