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Working Woman (with the Earring)

A work made of etching and soft ground etching in black on cream wove paper (discolored to tan).

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  • A work made of etching and soft ground etching in black on cream wove paper (discolored to tan).

Date:

1910

Artist:

Käthe Kollwitz
German, 1867–1945

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Käthe Kollwitz

Title

Working Woman (with the Earring)

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

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1910

Medium

Etching and soft ground etching in black on cream wove paper (discolored to tan)

Inscriptions

Signed lower right, below image, in graphite: “Kathe Kollwitz”; inscribed lower left, below image, in graphite: illegible inscription; lower left, in graphite: "S 105"; lower center, in graphite: "8031 H...?" (partially illegible)

Dimensions

Image: 31.8 × 23.8 cm (12 9/16 × 9 3/8 in.); Plate: 32 × 24 cm (12 5/8 × 9 1/2 in.); Sheet, sight: 32.8 × 24.8 cm (12 15/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Marjorie Kreilick McNab

Reference Number

2015.569

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