Houses on an Inlet
1726 to 1750
Medium
etching
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1980.45.1503
Art Historical Context
Nestled along a serene inlet, *Houses on an Inlet* is a delicate etching attributed to the Austrian artist Franz Edmund Wetter, crafted sometime between 1726 and1750. Weirotter (1719–1771), a printmaker, specialized in evocative landscapes that captured the quiet beauty of natural and architectural scenes. This work exemplifies his early style, blending precise observation with a sense of atmospheric depth, during an era when etching gained popularity for its ability to reproduce intricate details on paper. Etching, the medium here, involves drawing lines into a wax-coated copper plate, which...