The Sluice-Gate, Cottage Near Mud Flats, in the Evening

An etching of a thatched brick cottage at left beside a bare, branching tree, with a weathered wooden post or sluice at right. Flat mudflats and water stretch toward a distant town skyline under a dusky, hatched sky.

Artist

Antoni Waterloo

Date

ca. 1650

Medium

Etching on white laid paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

2240 × 1489 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum