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Youth Playing a Lyre to a Maiden by a Fountain

A work made of etching and engraving in black on ivory wove paper.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of etching and engraving in black on ivory wove paper.

Date:

1803

Artist:

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, the elder
German, 1759-1835

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, the elder

Title

Youth Playing a Lyre to a Maiden by a Fountain

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

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1803

Medium

Etching and engraving in black on ivory wove paper

Dimensions

Plate: 41.5 × 53.3 cm (16 3/8 × 21 in.); Sheet: 45.6 × 57.5 cm (18 × 22 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Albert H. Wolf, Henry M. Huxley, Mr. and Mrs. William O. Hunt, Harold Joachim Memorial, and Hannan endowment funds

Reference Number

2018.417

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