River Landscape with Large Tree at Left (1546): Art, History and Details

River Landscape with Large Tree at Left (1546) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Augustin Hirschvogel (German, 1503–1553).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Within a decade, Augustin Hirschvogel and Hanns Lautensack were aware of the landscapes by Wolfgang Huber and Albrecht Altdorfer and began to expand their artistic vocabulary. Hirschvogel probably made this group of etchings after traveling down the Danube from Nuremberg, through Regensburg and Passau, to his residence in Vienna. The many buildings, cultivated fields, and roads emphasize human activity and its mark on the landscape but always in the service of articulating a particular topography. Hirschvogel’s etchings found an international audience, informing the development of the landscape genre as far away as Italy and the Netherlands.

Object facts

• Title: River Landscape with Large Tree at Left
• Date: 1546
• Creator attribution: Augustin Hirschvogel (German, 1503–1553)
• Culture: Germany
• Type: Print
• Technique: etching
• Dimensions: Image: 13.9 x 20.8 cm (5 1/2 x 8 3/16 in.); Sheet: 13.9 x 20.8 cm (5 1/2 x 8 3/16 in.)
• Collection: PR - Etching
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1923.745

A detail from the museum

The artist's initials, "AH," and the date "1546" appear on a rendering of a flat stone tablet in the image, as if engraved into the rock.

Collection credit

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland

View the collection record

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