Small Plant Study: a Burdock, Delicate Tufts of Grass at Left

1826/1828

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe

Artist, German, 1759 - 1835

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 12.9 x 15.7 cm (5 1/16 x 6 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 14.8 x 17.8 cm (5 13/16 x 7 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.328

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Martens 1976, no. 77

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Count Giuseppe Archinto [1783-1861], Milan (Lugt 52); (C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased April 29, 1993; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1920

  • Jentsch, Ernst. "Der Radierer Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, 1757 Berlin-1835 Dessau." Unpublished dissertation. Breslau, 1920: no. 222.

1976

  • Martens, Ulf. Der Zeichner und Radierer C. W. Kolbe. Berlin, 1976: no. 72.

Inscriptions

in image, at top right: C W K fe

Wikidata ID

Q76556636

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