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

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Medium

wood engraving on wove paper [second edition]

Dimensions

image: 30.1 × 27 cm (11 7/8 × 10 5/8 in.)

sheet: 54.8 × 38.7 cm (21 9/16 × 15 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Manteuffel 1926, no. 25

Accession Number

2015.103.4

Artists / Makers

Alfred Rethel (artist) German, 1816 - 1859

Richard Julius Jungtow (wood-engraver) German, born 1828

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 Herm. Michels (J. Buddeus'sche Buch= und Kunsthandl.) / in Düsseldorf.; lower center below image: Druck von Breitkopf und Härtel in Leipzig

Provenance

Otto Sei..[cut off] (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