# Houses at a Millrace [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DEPPE, Ludwig]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 46 x 56 cm ## Commentary Ludwig Deppe was a professional secretary who is known from only two signed paintings of 1820. A number of fine early-nineteenth-century views of Berlin were lost in World War II, but one of the best remaining is by Ludwig Deppe. His Houses at a Millrace, like so many eighteenth-century vedute, with its prismatic realism, suggests the use of a camera obscura. ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()