Harley in Bethlem Royal Hospital
Medium
etching
Dimensions
168; 108
About this artwork
Harley krijgt een rondleiding over de vrouwenafdeling van het psychiatrisch ziekenhuis Bethlem Royal Hospital. Een van de patiënten pakt zijn hand en vertelt haar indrukkwekkende levensverhaal. Schuin achter Harley staat de opzichter van het hospitaal.
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...