Working-class woman in profile, looking left (1903)

Käthe Kollwitz

lithograph

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Physical Object Description:

Half-portrait of woman in profile, facing left, with hands clasped before her; 2nd state. 1903 Lithograph, printed in black on cream paper. Signed by artist in pencil.

Technique:

Lithograph

Dimensions:

44.6 x 31.8 cm

Accession Number:

1945,1208.313

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1945

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by the Contemporary Art Society, 1939; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1945

Relationship:

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Peasants

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Käthe Kollwitz

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