print;
portfolio
- Museum number
- 1923,1023.3.1-16
- Title
- Object: Erzählungen einer kleinen Schere
- Description
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"Erzählungen einer kleinen Schere. Sechzehn Schattenschnitte von Heinrich Wolff" (Königsberg, Paul Aderjahn's Verlag) 1908; a portfolio of 16 prints showing different characters and scenes in silhouette, namely Mutter und Tochter; Fraulein Doktor; Tanzende Mädchen; Sommernachtstraum; Erasmus; Die blonde Komtess; Fechter; Spätsommer; Überraschung; Froschkönig; Das alte Tor; Das einsame Fräulein; Riesenspielzeug; Am Haff; Handkuss. Kept loose with letterpress titlepage, list of contents, and notice of another publication by Wolff, the "Schattenspiel" (1907). Original brown portfolio is printed with woodcut title design showing a hand with scissors cutting out figures who tumble amid the words.
Woodcuts, printed on wove paper, with letterpress titles
- Production date
- 1908
- Dimensions
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Height: 360 millimetres (size of each sheet)
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Width: 250 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Wolff's "Schattenspiel" (1907), in a similar silhouette style, is kept at 191*.a.17 (1923,1023.2).
The versos of the "Erzählungen einer kleinen Schere" prints clearly show how they are printed by means of a relief process, as there are indentations in the paper. This contrasts with the thoroughly planographic nature of the silhouettes in the "Schattenspiel".
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Erzählungen einer kleinen Schere
- Acquisition date
- 1923
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1923,1023.3.1-16