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The image depicts a landscape with an elevated point of view. The horizon is high in the composition, featuring distant trees and possibly a church steeple. A cluster of buildings is visible on the horizon line. In the foreground, people are walking along a path flanked by trees and bushes. The style uses dark etching lines for contrast and texture. The color scheme is monochromatic, with the path leading towards the distant horizon.
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The image depicts a landscape with an elevated point of view. The horizon is high in the composition, featuring distant trees and possibly a church steeple. A cluster of buildings is visible on the horizon line. In the foreground, people are walking along a path flanked by trees and bushes. The style uses dark etching lines for contrast and texture. The color scheme is monochromatic, with the path leading towards the distant horizon.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Aŭf Staŭfá Brŭck

Otto Henry Bacher

Date
1879
Medium
etching in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 7.3 × 20.64 cm (2 7/8 × 8 1/8 in.) plate: 10.32 × 22.23 cm (4 1/16 × 8 3/4 in.) sheet: 17.15 × 30.8 cm (6 3/4 × 12 1/8 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2015.19.2438
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. S.R. Koehler, Boston, Massachusetts, 1881)
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • etching
  • Danube
  • landscape
Provenance

Sylvester Rosa Koehler, Boston, Massachusetts; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1881; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Inscription

lower right in the plate: Aŭf-Staŭfá-Brŭck / Sept. 5 - 79 - Otto

NGA object ID 169459. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.