Der Tod als Freund (Death as a Friend), 1831

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Medium

wood engraving on brown wove paper [third edition]

Dimensions

image: 30 × 27 cm (11 13/16 × 10 5/8 in.)

sheet: 41.9 × 24.9 cm (16 1/2 × 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Manteuffel 1926, no. 25, State ii(c)/ii

Accession Number

2015.103.3

Artists / Makers

Alfred Rethel (artist) German, 1816 - 1859

Hugo Bürkner (publisher) German, 1818 - 1897

Hermann Michels (publisher) German, active late 19th century

Breitkopf und Härtel (printer)

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in image: J. JUNGTOW; lower right in image: AR; lower center below image: Der Tod als Freund.; lower left below image: Herausgegeben aus der Akademie der Holzschneidekunst von H. Bürkner / in Dresden.; lower right below image: Erschienen bei Hermann Michels, Buch= und Kunstverlag / in Düsseldorf.; lower center below image: Druck von Breitkopf und Härtel in Leipzig

Provenance

(Friedrich Gypen's Kunstverlag, Munich) (not in Lugt). (Susan Schulman Printseller LLC, New York); purchased 2015 by NGA.

Associated Names

Schulman, Susan

Bibliography

1926: Manteuffel, Kurt Zoege von. Alfred Rethel ... mit einem ... kritischen Verzeichnis der Bilddrucke. Hamburg, 1926: no.25, ii(c)/ii