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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1992.162
People
Horst Janssen, German (Hamburg, Germany 1929 - 1995 Hamburg, Germany)
Title
Fish Mouth
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Fischmund
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1957 (printed 1989)
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221198

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and aquatint printed in black ink on off-white wove paper
Technique
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
plate: 60.1 x 39.9 cm (23 11/16 x 15 11/16 in.)
sheet: 78.3 x 53.3 cm (30 13/16 x 21 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: initialled in graphite at l.r.: HJ 57
  • inscription: l.r., graphite, English, in artist's hand: Harvard University
  • watermark: l.r.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Brockstedt R10

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Galerie Brockstedt through the German Art Dealers Association
Accession Year
1992
Object Number
1992.162
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Erika Gemar Költzsch, German Marks: Postwar Drawings and Prints Donated to the Busch-Reisinger Museum through the German Art Dealers Association, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), pp. 56-57, cat. no. 8, ill. (b/w)

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