IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 225385 accession number: P.151-1996.f6r DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 updated: Thursday 6 January 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Viertes Blatt.' [Plate Four], printed at upper centre. Untinted wood-engraving on white wove paper. Death stands on a platform in the foreground, wearing the coat, sash and boots and holding the hat with a cock's feather, which identify him as a Revolutionary. He hands the sword of Justice, now labelled 'VOLKS JUSTIZ' [People's Justice], to a crowd of jostling men below the platform on the right. A figure wearing a (blacksmith's?) apron stands beside Death on the platform. He holds a flag onto which is written, 'REPU[BLIC]' and points with his left hand at the soldiers who are approaching from the left. The first two intials of the wood-engraver's surname are carved into the block and printed lower centre: 'st.'. Four verses by Robert Reinick are set out below the image. The final line of the fourth verse is a cry for 'blood': 'Blut! Blut! viel tausend kehlen schrei'n'. ['Blood! Blood! scream four-thousand throats']. Inscription in graphite at lower left: '1025'. title: print 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/225385 TECHNIQUES ---------- wood engraving CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1849 - 1849 creation date earliest: 1849 creation date latest: 1849 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Steinbrecher, Gustav Richard maker: Wigand, Georg maker: Rethel, Alfred