# Norwegian Seacoast During a Storm

- By: Johan Christian Clausen Dahl (Norwegian, 1788–1857)
- Date: 1819
- Medium: etching, open-bite, black ink
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: Image: 10.9 x 14.6 cm (4 5/16 x 5 3/4 in.); Plate: 11.7 x 15 cm (4 5/8 x 5 7/8 in.); Sheet: 18.2 x 21.7 cm (7 3/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
- Credit line: Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt Endowment Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.249)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/2022.249/2022.249_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Johan Christian Clausen Dahl depicted his native Norway in dramatic landscapes that used figures to evoke the grandiose scale of nature. This etching—one of four created by the artist—shows the aftermath of a storm. A ship floats damaged in the distance while a man and his dog sit despondent on a massive rock nearby. Dahl rendered the sky and churning waves in jagged etched lines that suggest the violent movement and force of the sea outside Bergen, where he grew up. He considered this composition to be among his very best works.