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Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

View from the Battery toward the City

1836
graphite, pen and black and gray ink, and brush and gray wash on wove paper

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Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg depicted the view seen in this work, of Copenhagen from the small island of Trekroner, in several other works including a painting in Denmark’s Hirschsprung Collection.

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