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portfolio
Object Type
print
portfolio
Museum number
2016,7029.1.6
Title
Object:
Venus Mamma
Series:
Die Verwandlungen der Venus
(The Metamorphoses of Venus)
Description
Plate 6: Venus Mamma: nude pregnant woman with her eyes closed and two large bowls covering her breasts, with her legs cut off at the thighs, from a portfolio of 10 etchings on chine collé illustrating the poem 'The Metamorphoses of Venus' by Richard Dehmel, in original box, linen binding with wrapper and interleaving tissue. 1909 Etching and aquatint in brown ink
Producer name
Print made by:
Willy Geiger
Published by:
Bischoff & Höfle
School/style
German
Production date
1908
Production place
Published in:
Munich
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
aquatint
Dimensions
Height:
590 millimetres
(sheet size)
Height:
212 millimetres
Width:
160 millimetres
Width:
465 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
For details of the portfolio, see 2016,7029.1.1
Location
Not on display
Subjects
fertility/maternity
Associated names
Associated with:
Richard Dehmel
Representation of:
Aphrodite/Venus
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Emanuel von Baeyer
Funder name
Funded by:
Friends of Prints and Drawings
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Dr Heinrich Stinnes
(Lugt 1376a on recto)
Acquisition date
2016
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
2016,7029.1.6
Conservation
Treatment
: 06 Oct 2016