# Predjama Castle in Krein, Twelve Hours from Trieste

- By: Karl Friedrich Schinkel (printed by Friedrich Klinsmann (German, active 1814-c. 1816))
- Date: 1816
- Medium: Lithograph in black on tan wove paper
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: Image: 38.4 × 31.3 cm (15 1/8 × 12 3/8 in.); Sheet: 45.3 × 36 cm (17 7/8 × 14 3/16 in.)
- Culture: Germany
- Credit line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/148276)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/5c815a6d-3e59-086d-ff8d-12bae78637f8/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Karl Friedrich Schinkel composed this scene through precise penwork rather than with a lithographic crayon, the mark-making tool that predominated later in the century. In short staccato flicks and long, undulating strokes of lithographic ink, Schinkel’s technique here conveys the textures of trees, rock, and masonry. These fine details reflect the artist’s method of drafting outdoors, which is noted in the inscription at right beneath the image. The contrast between the dark fluidity of Schinkel’s lines and the warm tone of the paper captures the subtle but dramatic play of light and shadow across the medieval architecture and the rock faces of the mountain.

Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0