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Ossuary

Maker

(artist)
1799-1850

(lithographer)

(publisher)

Title

Ossuary

Date of Production

1840

Medium

Lithograph on chine collé

Dimensions

Height: 28.9 cm
Width: 21.9 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.7096.1

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords











Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: upper left, printed within image: MEMENENTO MORI.; upper right, printed: No. 1; upper margin, printed: O Mensch betracht, / Thie die Figur, / Und nicht veracht, / All Creatur; lower margin, printed: Die nimmt der Tod / Gleichwie die Blum / früh und spot / Im Feld zergoht / Hasler & Cie editeurs lithogs a Basle.; lower left, printed: HHess pinxt; lower right, printed: Danzer lithog.

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