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Brown etching of a stormy night landscape with a ruined castle on a hill, small figures at left, and rippling water below.

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A brown etching shows a stormy night landscape with a dark, hatched sky and a silhouetted ruined castle on a hill at left. Two small figures stand near rocks in the lower left, while bright, rippling water and rocky ground fill the foreground under a flash of light.

Artist
Charles Courtry
Date
1868
Medium
Etching in brown on ivory wove paper
Source
Art Institute of Chicago
Size
843 × 1258 px
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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1868).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, The Charles Deering Collection