Meadow Pond, New York
Charles Frederick William Mielatz
1851 to 1875
Medium
graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
overall (approximate): 21.5 x 34.8 cm (8 7/16 x 13 11/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
John Davis Hatch Collection
Accession Number
1979.20.86
About the Artist
Charles Frederick William Mielatz · 1864–1919
Charles Frederick William Mielatz (1864–1919) was an etcher and printmaker who became one of the most dedicated recorders of New York City in the age of its dramatic transformation into a modern metropolis. Born in Germany, he emigrated to the United States and settled in New York, where the spectacle of the rapidly changing city — its bridges, harbor, wharves, and crowded streets — became the cen...