# Woman with Spider's Web Between Bare Trees

- By: Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774-1840)
- Date: 1803
- Medium: Woodcut on ivory wove paper
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: Image/block: 17 × 12 cm (6 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.); Sheet: 26 × 19.3 cm (10 1/4 × 7 5/8 in.)
- Culture: Germany
- Credit line: Alfred E. Hamill Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/84330)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/697d6849-3668-cad8-d2e1-bdf9e89cd9f1/full/!1606,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Friedrich was one of the central figures of German romanticism. In the historical and nationalist spirit of the era, he turned back to early German print­making as a model for the use of the woodcut medium as an independent art form. These wood­cuts reflect the romantic interest in nature and time.

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