Water colour with touches of oil colour, 95 by 166 mm;
Partly visible watermark with date: “Whatm(-an) 1854”

Conservation: well preserved

Provenance: Private Collection Berlin

Hildebrandt might have learned to depict the remarkable light- and shadow effects as a pupil of Eugene Isabey (1804 – 1886) in Paris in 1841. His vita with long journeys all over the world shows an impressive artist’s career. He was supported by scientists like Alexander v. Humboldt and by King Frederic William IV of Prussia. As this drawing can be dated to after 1853, it might be a motive from his last voyage to the North Cape which he undertook in 1856.