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Book-Plate

1912 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Book-plate printed in black ink on a blue ground.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Woodcut
Brief description
Book-plate of Franz Hassler (one of two) printed in black ink on a blue ground. Woodcut print by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, 1912.
Physical description
Book-plate printed in black ink on a blue ground.
Dimensions
  • Height: 10.2cm
  • Width: 7.9cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963. London: HMSO, 1964.
Credit line
Given by Mr Gustav Delbanco
Object history
E.806-885-1963, under Prints and Drawings in this list, were formerly in the collection of Dr. Rosa Schapire, and of these the proofs of woodcuts made prior to 1924 were part of the material for her catalogue of Schmidt-Rottluff's graphic work. The Victoria and Albert Museum Library also has a collection of examples of the artist's typographical work, bequeathed by Dr. Schapire in 1955.
Associated object
E.830-1963 (Version)
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964.
  • Schapire, Rosa. Karl Schmidt-Rottluffs Graphisches Werk bis 1923. Berlin: Euphorion Verlag, 1924.
Collection
Accession number
E.831-1963

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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