Yorick en Maria wandelen arm in arm

About this artwork

Vervaardigd voor Laurence Sternes 'empfindsame Reise'. Prent gebruikt voor: Berliner genealogischen Calender auf das Schalt Jahr 1784. S.l.s.n., [1783].

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...