Ernst Arnold after Lawrence

AG 1766

Dresden

"Vue de Dresde du côte de la ville neuve prise de corps de garde (Blockhaus)"

Nicely handcoloured outline copper engraving after Lawrence (regarding to a hand-written notice under the view), published by Ernst Arnold, Dresden about 1820, 27 x 39 cm.

Literature: Hans J. Neidhardt: Dresden wie es Maler sahen. E.A. Seemann, Leipzig 2005.

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Picturesque general view of Dresden, with the Augustus bridge and the 'Blockhaus' in the foreground, the 'Katholische Hofkirche' in the middle and the famous 'Frauenkirche' at the left side.

The 'Blockhaus', on the right side of the Elbe and at the end of the Augustus bridge, was built from 1732 until 1753 as a quaters for the guards of Neustadt, the 'Corps de Garde'. The building had been destroy during the Second World War and from 1975 until 1982 it had been reconstructed in its original baroque form.

Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 Bristol - London 1830) was the last great English portraitist, before during the 19th century landscape painting became more and more popular. After the victory of the allied forces over Napoleon Lawrence travelled several times through Europe (1814-25, e.g. to Paris, Vienna, Rome), to portrait important people of that time. On one of this journeys probablely he visited Dresden and did some sketches after nature or after the - even at that time - already widely admired views of Dresden by Canaletto.

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