# Rhine at the Lurlei

**George Elbert Burr** (American, 1859–1939)  
1900  
pencil on paper  
sheet: 4 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (12.4 x 20.1 cm)

Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1983.83.171. [The museum's record](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=3285).

## About this work

George Elbert Burr drew this in 1900, aged 41. It is now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.

### [George Elbert Burr](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/george-elbert-burr)

American, 1859–1939

Burr worked as an illustrator in New York before spending several years travelling and sketching in Europe around 1900. Moving west for his health, he settled in Denver and later in Phoenix, and became best known for etchings of the deserts and mountains of the American Southwest, many worked with drypoint and aquatint and some inked in colour to suggest the light of dawn and dusk.

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## Facts

- Type: Drawing
- Culture: Germans
- The artist was 41
- Real size: about 5 × 8 in (12 × 20 cm). The original is small: even the 8 × 10 in print shows it larger than life.
- Century: 19th century
- Subjects: Lurlei, Landscapes, Rhine River, Rivers
- Colour: white
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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