The Damned

1798/1800

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe

Artist, German, 1759 - 1835

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 41.1 x 32.3 cm (16 3/16 x 12 11/16 in.) (trimmed within plate mark)

  • Accession

    2012.92.334

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Martens 1976, no. 37, State iii/iv


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Count Giuseppe Archinto [1783-1861], Milan (Lugt 52). (Christopher Mendez, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 13, 1998; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1920

  • Jentsch, Ernst. "Der Radierer Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, 1757 Berlin-1835 Dessau." Unpublished dissertation. Breslau, 1920: no. 241.

1976

  • Martens, Ulf. Der Zeichner und Radierer C. W. Kolbe. Berlin, 1976: no. 37, iii/iv.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, at bottom center: indecipherable

Wikidata ID

Q76556656


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