Evil-speaking Little Women

1927

Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita

Artist, Dutch, 1868 - 1944

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with gray, blue and brown wash

  • Credit Line

    Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 23.2 x 14.7 cm (9 1/8 x 5 13/16 in.)
    support: 24.3 x 15.6 cm (9 9/16 x 6 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1983.109.133

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Es 2005, no. D 119

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist; M. C. Escher [1898-1972]; by descent, George A. Escher [1926-2018]; Cornelius Van Schaak Roosevelt [1915-1991]; gift to NGA 1983.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2024

  • Looted, National Holocaust Museum, Amsterdam, 2024.

Bibliography

2005

  • Es, Jonieke van. Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, Tekenaar, graficus, sierkunstenaar. Zwolle, 2005: no. D 119.

Inscriptions

across bottom: Eigen druk / 1927 Jesserun de Mesquita; inscription in Dutch by M.C. Escher on original mat with English translation by G.A. Escher

Wikidata ID

Q74045714

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