Countless eighteenth-century artists were influenced by Dutch art of the seventeenth century, particularly the work of Rembrandt van Rijn. Not only were many of Rembrandt’s own etchings and drypoints reprinted from extant plates, but his paintings and drawings were reproduced by various printmakers. The development of the aquatint process in the late 1750s and early 1760s enabled artists like Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki to replicate the tonal effects of one of Rembrandt’s drawings. Chodowiecki took special care in rendering the clouds in the sky and the play of light and shadow over the buildings at the top of the hill.