Death, Woman, and Child

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Käthe Kollwitz

Title

Death, Woman, and Child

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1910

Medium

Etching in black on buff wove paper

Inscriptions

Signed and inscribed lower right, below plate, in graphite: “Käthe Kollwitz / unvollendete Arbeit”; signed by the printer lower left, below plate, in graphite: “O. Felsing Berlin”; inscribed lower left, below plate, in graphite: “6/50”; lower left corner, in graphite: “g.113 / Frau, Tod und Kind”; upper right corner, in graphite: “Z.8.”; verso, lower right, in graphite: “K. 113 XI/XIV / 7554”

Dimensions

Plate: 40 × 39.5 cm (15 3/4 × 15 9/16 in.); Sheet: 56.2 × 73 cm (22 3/16 × 28 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Celia and David Hilliard Endowment Fund

Reference Number

2019.761

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