View of the West Facade of Dunkeld Cathedral 1844

Carl Gustav Carus, a German Romantic painter and physician, created this graphite drawing, *View of the West Facade of Dunkeld Cathedral*, in 1844. The drawing, now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, depicts the ruins of the cathedral in Scotland partially obscured by trees and foliage, providing a sense of the grandeur of the past, intertwined with the tranquility of nature. The artist's meticulous detail in the rendering of the crumbling stonework and the surrounding vegetation is characteristic of Carus's approach to landscape drawing.