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Death to the Emperor [Tod zum Kayser]

Maker

(artist)
1799-1850

After
(artist)
died 1775

(lithographer)

(publisher)

Title

Death to the Emperor [Tod zum Kayser]

Date of Production

1840

Medium

Hand-coloured lithograph

Dimensions

Height: 28.9 cm
Width: 22.1 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.7096.4

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 left, printed: No. 3.; upper centre, printed: Der Tod zum Kayser. / Herr Kayser mit dem graven Bart, / Eur Reu habt ihr zu lang gespart, / Drum sperrt euch nicht, Ihr müßt darvon, / Und tanz'n nach meiner Pfeiffen Thon.; lower centre, printed: Antwort des Kaisers. / Ich kunnte das Reich gar wohl mehren / Mit Streiten, Fechten, Unrecht wehren; / Uun hat der Tod uberwunden mich, / Daß ich bin keinem Kayser gleich.; lower left, printed: HHess pinxt.; lower right, printed: Danzer lithog.; lower centre, printed: Hasler & Cie., éditeurs lithog. à Basle. Verso: stamped in blue: M

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