1551
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Landscape with View of a Farmer's Cottage and a Town near a River is a 1551 ink by Hanns Lautensack, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This image shows two tall trees framing a town by a river. The buildings are small and packed together, with a few spires sticking up. The river winds through the scene, and the sky is full of wavy lines, maybe for clouds or wind. The whole thing is drawn in black lines on light paper, like a sketch. The artist used a technique where ink is scratched into a metal plate to make the lines. This lets them hold multiple sheets of paper against it at once, which is why the image is split into two parts. Look up etching to see how this process works.
Hanns Lautensack (sometimes erroneously referred to as Hans Sebald Lautensack) (1524 – c.
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