Columbus betreedt het Amerikaanse vasteland
Medium
etching
Dimensions
92; 55
About this artwork
Prent gebruikt voor: Gothaischer Hof Kalender zum Nutzen und Vergnügen eingerichtet auf das Jahr 1791. Gotha: C. W. Ettinger, [1790].
About the Artist
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki · 1726–1801
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki (1726–1801) was a German painter and printmaker of Polish-Huguenot descent who became the most celebrated graphic artist in 18th-century Germany. Born in Danzig (now Gdańsk), he created approximately 2,000 etchings that serve as an invaluable visual record of German bourgeois life during the Enlightenment. Largely self-taught, Chodowiecki moved to Berlin in 1743 and ach...