Landscape with Fishing Boats
Medium
aquatint and etching in dark, medium, and light brown
Dimensions
mount: 33.4 × 48.6 cm (13 1/8 × 19 1/8 in.) sheet (trimmed within platemark): 16.9 × 23.9 cm (6 5/8 × 9 7/16 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1948.11.280
Art Historical Context
**Landscape with Fishing Boats** (1782–1785) is a delicate print by Maria Catharina Prestel, a pioneering German engraver, created after an original by Austrian artist Franz Edmund Weirotter. Weirotter, renowned for atmospheric landscapes and vedute (ographical views), captured the serene beauty of everyday coastal scenes, and Prestel faithfully interpreted this in her reproduction. Dated to the late Enlightenment era, the work reflects the growing fascination with nature's quiet drama amid Europe's expanding interest in travel and the picturesque. Crafted in aquatint and etching using dark, ...