Pilgrimage to the Französisch Bucholz Spa near Berlin

Description

The caption reads: "The artist had promised his children a Sunday trip to the Französisch Bucholz—at that time a frequently visited pleasure spot—but the trip was cancelled because of the streaming rain and the carriage that failed to show up. To make up to them for the cancelled trip, he drew up a delightful image of the trip as planned, and the various family members can be identified therein."

Pilgrimage to the Französisch Bucholz Spa near Berlin

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki

1779

Accession Number

13564

Medium

Etching and engraving on cream laid paper

Dimensions

Image/plate: 12.8 × 17.6 cm (5 1/16 × 6 15/16 in.); Sheet: 16.5 × 21 cm (6 1/2 × 8 5/16 in.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Alfred E. Hamill