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print
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frontispiece
Object Type
print
frontispiece
Museum number
1892,0628.657
Title
Series:
Der Sonntag in Bildern
(Sunday in Pictures)
Description
Group of children spinning, sewing, writing, fishing, picking apples from a tree; child with wreath of fruits on head seated with eyes closed on a cloud above, making gesture of blessing, cross behind; cartouche and tablet below image; proof frontispiece to the series 'Der Sonntag in Bildern' (Dresden: 1861); after Ludwig Richter. Wood-engraving on China paper
Producer name
Block cut by:
Carl August Zscheckel
After:
Ludwig Richter
School/style
German
Production date
1861
Materials
paper
Technique
wood-engraving
Dimensions
Height:
250 millimetres
(image)
Width:
153 millimetres
(image)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Engraver's name taken from Hoff 1877.
Bibliographic references
Hoff 1877 / Adrian Ludwig Richter, Maler und Radierer; des Meisters eigenhändige Radirungen sowie die nach ihm erschienenen Holzschnitte, Radirungen, Stiche, Lithographien, Lichtdrucke und Photographien
(451)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
child
fisherman/fishing
needlework
fruit
spinner/spinning
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Hugo Leopold Friedrich Heinrich Bürkner
Acquisition date
1892
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1892,0628.657