Travelers at the Rock Arch in the Limestone Mountains of the River Elbe

Johann Moritz Gottfried Jentzsch

1804 · Brush and brown ink on wove paper · Drawings and Prints

Jentzsch, a landscape specialist active at the Dresden court in the beginning of the nineteenth century, depicted tourists visiting a natural attraction in the Uttewalder Valley known as the Felsentor ("rock arch"). A number of German Romantic artists sketched the dramatic spot, a narrow passage between two high cliffs. In this sheet, two gentlemen assist their ladies in crossing a precarious bridge of planks as another man examines the remarkable rock formations through his spectacles.

Artist

Johann Moritz Gottfried Jentzsch

Date

1804

Medium

Brush and brown ink on wove paper

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Dr. Martin Moeller, 2004