1793
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Anecdotes of King Frederik II is a 1793 ink by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This set of three black-and-white prints shows dramatic moments with a king and his courtiers. The first scene has the king standing over a seated man with a bandaged arm, surrounded by others watching. The second shows the king leaning over a dying man in bed, while a doctor and another man stand nearby. The third print depicts a crowd of soldiers and nobles, with the king’s coat lying on the ground. The small figures at the bottom hint at the stories behind each scene—like a soldier tending to a fallen comrade or a noble adjusting his clothes. These prints were made using a technique called *etching*, which lets artists scratch detailed lines into metal plates. If you like these scenes, check out the technique: etching.
Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki (16 October 1726 – 7 February 1801) was a German painter and printmaker of Huguenot and Polish ancestry, who is most famous as an etcher.
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