Ontmoeting tussen Cecilia en Mortimer na de zelfmoord van Mr. Harrels

About this artwork

Vervaardigd voor een bewerking van Frances Burney's 'Cecilia', genaamd 'Cecilia oder die Geschichte einer reichen Waise'. Latere staat van deze prent gebruikt in: Königl. Grosbritannischer Historischer Genealogischer Calender für 1789, mit Kupfern von Chodowiecki. Lauenburg: J. G. Berenberg, 1788.

Art Historical Context

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowie's etching *Ontmoeting tussen Cecilia Mortimer na de zelfmo van Mr. Harrels (Meeting between Cecilia and Mortimer after the Suicide Mr. Harrels), in 1787, a poignant moment from Frances Burney's 1782 novel *Cec*. This small-scale work (114mm × 65mm) illustrates the emotional encounter between the orphaned heiress Cecilia and Mortimer following the tragic suicide of Mr. Harrels, a character entangled in financial ruin. Chodowie, a master engraver and director of the Berlin Academy of Arts, was renowned for his intricate book illustrations that brought Enlightenment-era l...

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...