An Architect in His Studio
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 15/16 × 5 11/16 in. (17.7 × 14.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.598.175
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the intimate world of *An Architect in His Studio*, a charming 19th-century German lithograph (ca. 1790–1850) now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's and Prints department. Created anonymously and published by the Düsseldorf firm Arnz & Co., this small-scale print (6 15/16 × 5 11/16 in.) captures a male architect at work amid the clutter of his studio—think drafting tools, papers, and architectural models evoking the era's burgeoning professional class. Lithography, a revolutionary technique invented just decades earlier, allowed for precise reproduction of detailed images li...