Fountain of Aya Sophia, Constantinople
Medium
drypoint on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 13 × 16.8 cm (5 1/8 × 6 5/8 in.) sheet: 19.7 × 25.2 cm (7 3/4 × 9 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.8922
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Louis Conrad Rosenberg · 1890–1983
Louis Conrad Rosenberg (1890–1983), born in Portland, Oregon, to Charles and Hannah Rosenberg, emerged as one of America's foremost architectural etchers, blending his training as an architect with masterful printmaking. A precocious draftsman from childhood, he apprenticed under T. Chapell Brown in Portland starting at age sixteen in 1906, advancing to draftsman under mentor Ellis Fuller Lawrence...