Portret van Hawser Trunnion
Medium
etching
Dimensions
115; 181
About this artwork
blad: hoogte 181 mm (binnen plaatrand afgesneden) x breedte 115 mm (binnen plaatrand afgesneden)
Art Historical Context
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowie's *Portret van Hawserunnion* (1785) is a delicate etching capturing the likeness of a memorable literary figure. Measuring just 181 mm high by 115 mm wide—trimmed within the plate lines—this intimate portrait exemplifies Chodowiecki's mastery small-scale printmaking. Born in Danzig (now Gdańsk) and active in Berlin, Chodowiecki was a leading 18th-century illustrator whose prolific output adorned books, magazines, and collections across Europe. The subject, Hawser Trunnion, is the eccentric naval captain from Tobias Smollett's picaresque novel *The Adventures of Peregr...
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...