Der Tod als Freund (Death as a Friend)

1851

Alfred Rethel

Artist, German, 1816 - 1859

Richard Julius Jungtow

Wood-engraver, German, born 1828

Hugo Bürkner

Publisher, German, 1818 - 1897

Julius Buddeus

Publisher, German, active 1830s - 1852

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving on wove paper [first edition]

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 30.1 × 27.2 cm (11 7/8 × 10 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 51.4 × 38.7 cm (20 1/4 × 15 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.103.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

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

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Susan Schulman Printseller LLC, New York); purchased 2015 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1926

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

Inscriptions

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 Ed. Schulte (J. Buddeus'sche Buch= und Kunsthandl.) / in Düsseldorf; by later hand, lower left in graphite: No. 399; by later hand, lower right in graphite:6

Wikidata ID

Q77015721

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