Zes voorstellingen uit Sternes empfindsame Reise

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De prenten zijn rechtsboven genummerd. Met onderschrift in het Duits.

Art Historical Context

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowie, a prolific Polish-German engraver and active in 18th-century Berlin, created *Zes voorstellingen uites empfindsame Reise in 1783. This etching captures six sequential scenes from Laurence Sterne's beloved novel *A Sentimental Journey France and Italy* (known in German as *Empfind Reise*), a cornerstone of sentimental literature that emphasized emotion, empathy, and human connection over travelogues. Chodowiecki, renowned for his delicate Rococo-influenced illustrations of moral tales and novels, brought Sterne's poignant vignettes to life in a compact horizontal forma...

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...