# View from the Battery toward the City

**Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg** (Danish, 1783–1853)  
1836  
graphite, pen and black and gray ink, and brush and gray wash on wove paper  
Sheet: 18.5 x 31.5 cm (7 5/16 x 12 3/8 in.)

Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2020.225. [The museum's record](https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.225).

## About this work

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg is known for initiating Danish painting’s Golden Age—a period of cultural efflorescence during the first half of the 19th century. Marine subjects were among the artist’s favorite, and the primary focus of his work beginning in the 1820s. Dating from this period, this drawing depicts Russian ships viewed from a fortress in Copenhagen’s harbor. In his journal, Eckersberg described making the trip to see the fleet with friends and waiting for the waters to become calm enough for sailing. To convey this experience, he juxtaposed precise perspective of the landscape with expressively rendered clouds.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg drew this in 1836, aged 53. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

### How it was made

- **Graphite.** Pencil. Graphite has been used for drawing since the 1500s; in 1795 Nicolas-Jacques Conté mixed it with clay, so its hardness could be graded.
- **Pen and ink.** Drawn with a quill or reed pen, often with wash added by brush to model light and shadow.

### [Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/christoffer-wilhelm-eckersberg)

Danish, 1783–1853

## Facts

- Type: Drawing
- Culture: Denmark
- The artist was 53
- Real size: about 7½ × 12 in (19 × 32 cm). The 11 × 14 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Colour: white
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

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- Canvas reproduction: 8 × 10 in $58; 11 × 14 in $72; 12 × 16 in $79; 16 × 20 in $98
- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3

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