IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225381 accession number: P.151-1996 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Thursday 6 January 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Unbound portfolio of wood-engravings (untinted) on white wove paper, after Alfred Rethel, with text by Robert Reinick; ff.1r-8v: f1r - title page; letterpress in black ink on white wove paper: 'Auch ein Todtentanz / aus dem Jahre 1848. / Erfunden und gezeichnet von [Invented and drawn by] / Alfred Rethel. / Mit erklärendem Text von [with explanatory text by] / R. Reinick. / Ausgeführt im akademischen Atelier für holzschneidekunst zu Dresden unter Leitung von h. Bürkner. [Executed under the direction of Hugo Bürkner in the department of wood-engraving at the Art Academy in Dresden] / 'Du Bürger und du Bauersmann, ...' [epilogue composed by Reinick] / Preis 15 Slbgr. [15 Silbergrosschen] / Leipzig, George Wigand's Verlag.' Inscription in graphite at lower left: '1025'. f2r - epilogue of two verses composed by Robert Reinick, printed in letterpress in black ink: 'Als Leichen - ja! - da sind wir gleich ... So segne Gott das Vaterland!' [As corpses - yes - there we are equal ... So God bless the Fatherland!']. Inscription in graphite at lower left: '1025'. f2v - inscription in graphite at lower left: 496 [encircled]. See individual records for the plates: f3r, f4r, f5r, f6r, f7r and f8r. f1v, f3v, f4v, f5v, f6v, f7v, f8v are blank. Note on this acquisition from the Syndicate Minutes, 22 January, 1996: 'The Museum already owns an early issue by Wigand with the six images printed with tint-blocks on one large sheet with different binding and additional texts; and the later Leipzig portfolio edition of 1879, which is also printed with a tint-block, with Schlicke's address and additional prefatory text. These were donated in 1914 by Philip J. Worsley who purchased the large sheet in Dresden in 1854'. The British Museum holds a comparable edition with plates similarly untinted and a stated price of 15 Silbergrosschen. See 1932,0624.1.1-6. title: portfolio LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Given by an anonymous donor through the American Friends of Cambridge University (A.F.C.U.), 1996 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225381 TECHNIQUES ---------- letterpress TECHNIQUES ---------- wood engraving CATEGORIES ------ category: portfolio category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1849 - 1849 creation date earliest: 1849 creation date latest: 1849 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Schmidt, Oskar; Steinbrecher, Gustav Richard; Gaber, August; Bürkner, Hugo maker: Wigand, Georg maker: Rethel, Alfred