- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- BR33.36
- People
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Käthe Kollwitz, German (Königsberg, East Prussia 1867 - 1945 Moritzburg, Germany)
- Title
- Whetting the Scythe, plate 3 from the cycle "Peasants' War"
- Other Titles
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Title: Whetting the Scythe
Series/Book Title: Peasants' War
Original Language Title: Beim Denglen, Blatt 3 aus dem Zyclus "Bauernkrieg" - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1905
- Period
- Modern
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/225921
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Etching printed in black ink on off-white wove paper
- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 29.8 x 29.5 cm (11 3/4 x 11 5/8 in.)
sheet: 53.4 x 36.9 cm (21 x 14 1/2 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: graphite, l.r. "Käthe Kollwitz"
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- Klipstein 90
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Museum Purchase
- Copyright
- © Estate of Käthe Kollwitz, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Accession Year
- 1933
- Object Number
- BR33.36
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), 197
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