Drie voorstellingen uit William Shakespeares Merry Wives of Windsor
Medium
etching
Dimensions
112; 189
About this artwork
Vervaardigd voor William Shakespeares 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'. Latere staat gebruikt voor: Goettinger Taschen Calender vom Jahr 1787. Göttingen: Johann Christoph Dietrich, 1786.
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...