Caspar David Friedrich (Greifswald 1774 – 1840 Dresden). ”Karlsruher Skizzenbuch”. 1804 Sketchbook with 20 sheets of wove paper (watermark: J Whatman 1801), 33 pages of which with pencil drawings partially washed in sepia. Approx. 18,4 × 11,8 cm (7 ¼ × 4 ⅝ in.). Individual pages inscribed and dated by the artist (25th April 1804 until 1st June 1804). Grummt 383 as well as 388-392 and 398-412.– [3077] Provenance: Estate of the artist Georg Friedrich Kersting (1785–1847) (thenceforth in family possession) Literature and illustration: Helmut Börsch-Supan and Karl Wilhelm Jähnig: Caspar David Friedrich. Gemälde, Druckgraphik and bildmäßige Zeichnungen. Munich, Prestel-Verlag, 1973, p. 47, note 62 <a href="https://www.grisebach.com/fileadmin/downloads/PDFs/W2023/Grisebach_354_10_FRIEDRICH_EN.pdf">To the accompanying essays</a> by Anna Ahrens and Christina Grummt The sketchbook is requested as a loan for the exhibition: Caspar David Friedrich. Wo alles began. Dresden State Art Collections, Kupferstich-Kabinett and Albertinum, 24.8.2024-5.1.2025