Landschap met molen in de Binckhorst in Den Haag 1888 - 1934

This etching, *Landschap met molen in de Binckhorst in Den Haag* by Willem Adrianus Grondhout, captures a Dutch landscape with such economy, it’s like a fleeting memory. The texture is all in these tiny, dense networks of lines. Look at how they build up the darks around the trees and the little building on the right; it's a real feat of printmaking. The whole scene is made from the process, from these intricate cross-hatchings that create depth and shadow. See the mark-making as a kind of translation – turning a three-dimensional space into a flat plane with nothing but the careful arrangement of lines. There's something very Whistler-esque about this piece, a kind of tonalist approach to landscape. Both artists share an interest in capturing mood and atmosphere through subtle variations in tone and delicate mark-making. The beauty of art is always how one thing speaks to another across time, with ambiguity, rather than fixed meaning, the space where the work comes alive.