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Werner Drewes

Praying Mantis

1943

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Praying Mantis

Werner Drewes

Praying Mantis

Werner Drewes

Praying Mantis

1943

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 264 × 362 mm. (10 3/8 × 14 1/4 in.) Plate: 198 × 301 mm. (7 13/16 × 11 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Karen Drewes Seibert representing the Drewes Estate, Chevy Chase, Maryland
Object Number 2017.207
proof before softground
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2017; the artist's estate (Karen Seibert, granddaughter)
Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17

Artist

Werner Drewes

1898–1984

born Canig, Germany 1899; died Reston, VA 1985
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