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Carl Wilhelm Kolbe

Plant Study with Burdock, c. 1820?

Not on View

Medium

etching on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 17.46 × 24.45 cm (6 7/8 × 9 5/8 in.)
plate: 20 × 27.31 cm (7 7/8 × 10 3/4 in.)

sheet: 26.35 × 34.61 cm (10 3/8 × 13 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Martens 1976, no. 77, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2017.19.44

Artists / Makers

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (artist) German, 1759 - 1835

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: C.W. Kolbe fec; lower right in graphite: 22 [undeciphered]

Provenance

A. Thompson Ellwanger and Gregory Mescha, Baltimore; bequest to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Boerner, C.G., Mr.
Ellwanger, III, A. Thompson

Bibliography

1976: Martens, Ulf. Der Zeichner und Radierer C. W. Kolbe. Berlin, 1976, no. 77, ii/ii

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