print
- Museum number
- 1983,1001.29
- Title
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Object: Die Frau am Herde
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Series: Der tote Tag
- Description
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Plate 17: The woman at the stove; interior with seated woman, pile of sticks before her. 1912
Lithograph, on light buff paper
- Production date
- 1912
- Dimensions
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Height: 255 millimetres
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Width: 315 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From 'Der Tote Tag' - The Dead Day, portfolio of 26 lithographs (Rifkind: plate 16).
Text from Frances Carey and Antony Griffiths, 'The Print in Germany 1880-1933', BM 1984, no.65
This scene occurs at the beginning of the fourth act. The Mother starts back at the sight of the wood on the floor in front of the stove, which has been mysteriously chopped up during the night. This is one of the few plates for which the original drawing does not seem to survive.
For a discussion of this series see text from Frances Carey and Antony Griffiths, 'The Print in Germany 1880-1933', BM 1984, no.64-6
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1984/5 Sept.-Jan., BM, 'The Print in Germany 1880-1933', no. 65
- Acquisition date
- 1983
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1983,1001.29