1546
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Landscape with Castle at Right, Surrounded by Rocks is a 1546 ink by Augustin Hirschvogel, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This image shows a dark, jagged landscape with a castle on the right side. The castle has tall towers and a bridge leading to it. In the middle, a small group of people stands near a river, and bare trees line the banks. The scene looks rough and uneven, like it was drawn quickly with sharp lines. The artist used a technique that creates fine, scratchy details—this is an etching. The lines are all hand-drawn into a metal plate, then inked and pressed onto paper. Check out etching to see how this method works.
Augustin Hirschvogel (1503 – February 1553) was a German artist, mathematician, and cartographer known primarily for his etchings.
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