Wooded Mountain Landscape with a Small Waterfall and Pathway
Medium
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 16.8 × 13.2 cm (6 5/8 × 5 1/4 in.); Sheet: 26.2 × 20.2 cm (10 3/8 × 8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
141439
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This early example of a lithographic print was produced shortly after the medium was invented. Alois Senefelder, a German playwright and composer, created lithography in 1798 while trying to develop an affordable process for printing his plays. Within a decade, artists were exploring the potentials of the medium. Here, Franz Joseph Leopold has composed his quiet scene in a precise, linear style. Tiny lines rendered in lithographic ink with a fine-tipped pen compose the dense foliage, jagged roc...