Castle Garden
Charles Frederick William Mielatz
1851 to 1875
Medium
etching and aquatint
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Addie Burr Clark
Accession Number
1946.9.145
About the Artist
Charles Frederick William Mielatz · 1864–1919
Charles Frederick William Mielatz (1864–1919) was an etcher and printmaker who became one of the most dedicated recorders of New York City in the age of its dramatic transformation into a modern metropolis. Born in Germany, he emigrated to the United States and settled in New York, where the spectacle of the rapidly changing city — its bridges, harbor, wharves, and crowded streets — became the cen...