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Death to the Userer [Der Tod zum Wucherer]

Maker

(artist)
1799-1850

After
(artist)
died 1775

(lithographer)

(publisher)

Title

Death to the Userer [Der Tod zum Wucherer]

Date of Production

1840

Medium

Hand-coloured lithograph

Dimensions

Height: 28.8 cm
Width: 22.2 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.7096.26

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

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: upper right, printed: No. 25.; upper centre, printed: Der Tod zum Wucherer. / Dein Gold und Geld sieh ich nicht an, / Du Wucherer und gottlos Mann! / Christus hat dich das nicht gelehrt. / Ein schwarzer Tod ist dein Gefehrt.; lower centre, printed: Antwort der Wucherers. / Ich fragt' nicht viel nach Christi Lehr; / Mein Wucher der trug mir viel mehr. / Jetzt bleibt der, leider! all dahinten: / Was hilft mein Schaben und mein Schinden? / Hasler & Cie., éditeurs lithog. à Basle.; lower left, printed: HHess pinxt; lower right, printed: Danzer lithog Verso: stamped in blue: M

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