Overgave bij Yorktown
Medium
etching
Dimensions
65; 115
About this artwork
height 115 mm x width 65 mm
Art Historical Context
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, a prolific German engraver and director of the Berlin Academy of, captured a pivotal moment of history in his 1783 etching *Overgave bij Yorktown* (Surrender at Yorktown). diminutive print, measuring just 115 mm high by 65 mm wide, the dramatic surrender of British General Charles Cornwallis to American and French forces on October 19, 1781—an event that effectively ended major combat in the American Revolutionary WarThe artwork's timing is telling: created two years after the battle and coinciding with the Treaty of Paris, it reflects Europe's fascination with the...
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...