Dock, New York River
Medium
Etching with aquatint in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 20 × 24.9 cm (7 7/8 × 9 13/16 in.); Sheet: 26.5 × 31.6 cm (10 7/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
138506
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...