Kuks Baden, Bohemia
c. 1725
Medium
Engraving and etching (recto) and woodblock print (verso) in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 65.3 × 78.9 cm (25 3/4 × 31 1/8 in.); Sheet, trimmed within platemark: 66 × 79.8 cm (26 × 31 7/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
194759
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
The aristocratic pleasures of the hunt pervade this expansive landscape, which was made to promote the new mineral baths of Kuks, Bohemia, a town situated on the Elbe River. The scene, set in verdant glades and imagined ruins, contains a numbered legend to the landmarks of the sprawling hills beyond. Count Franz Anton von Sporck discovered three mineral springs in Kuks and founded a church and hospital above the springs, reviving the area by the 1720s as a center for physical and religious well-...