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Death Holding Scales Addressing a Crowd - Image 1
Death Holding Scales Addressing a Crowd - Image 2
Public Domain

Oskar Schmidt, Alfred Rethel, and others

Death Holding Scales Addressing a Crowd

1849

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Death Holding Scales Addressing a Crowd

1849

Physical Qualities Relief print, Sheet: 270 x 360 mm. (10 5/8 x 14 3/16 in.) Image: 255 x 315 mm. (10 1/16 x 12 3/8 in.)
Portfolio/Series Plate 3 from the portfolio "A Dance of Death for the Year 1848 (Ein Todtentanz aus dem Jahre 1848)"
Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number 1973.49.3

Inscribed: In matrix, above image, at center: "3"; in matrix, in image, at lower right: "SCHMIDT. S.C."; in matrix, in image, at upper right: "FREIHEIT / GLEICHHEIT / BRUDERLICH, / KEIT"

Markings: None

Artist

Oskar Schmidt

German, active 1848

German, active 1848
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Artist

Alfred Rethel

German, 1816-1859

German, 1816-1859
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Author

Robert Reinick

German, 1805-1852

German, 1805-1852
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