Le Ministre de Wakefield M. Burchell sauve la vie à Sophie
Medium
etching
Dimensions
110; 66
About this artwork
Eerste scène uit een serie van twaalf scènes die 'The Vicar of Wakefield' door Oliver Goldsmith illustreren. De scènes werden op een plaat geëtst. Deze serie is gebruikt in: 'Almanac Généalogique pour l'an 1777 etc. À Berlin'.
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...