1943.535: Worker Facing Left (after a figure in "The Iron Rolling Mill")

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.535

People

Adolph Menzel, German (Breslau, Prussia [now Wroclav, Poland] 1815 - 1905 Berlin, Germany)

Title

Worker Facing Left (after a figure in "The Iron Rolling Mill")

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1878

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298240

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and wash on off-white wove card

Dimensions

actual: 16.8 x 10.7 cm (6 5/8 x 4 3/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.535

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• William W. Robinson, Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), checklist no. 26

Exhibition History

• 19th-Century German Drawings and Watercolors, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 07/01/1981 - 08/31/1981
• German Art of the Latter 19th Century, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/08/1982 - 12/31/1982
• 19th-Century Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/01/1983 - 10/09/1983
• Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/04/1998 - 06/28/1998

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