Man with Top Hat Before a Café Window - Rear View

Identification and Creation

Object Number: BR52.393
People: Lesser Ury, German (Birnbaum, Prussia [now Miedzychod, Poland] 1861 - 1931 Berlin, Germany)
Title: Man with Top Hat Before a Café Window - Rear View
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Herr mit Zylinder vor einem Kaffeehausfenster - in Rückenansicht
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1923
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/222501

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching printed in black ink on off-white wove paper with gouache additions

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

plate: 24.1 x 18 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/16 in.)
sheet: 36.4 x 26.7 cm (14 5/16 x 10 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: in graphite at l.l.: L. Ury
inscription: l.c., graphite, handwritten, German, signed, in artist's hand: S. Lieber Freunde Arthur Kraft [Very dear friend Arthur Kraft]
9/11 23 Lesser Ury
inscription: u.r., graphite, handwritten: 83

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: Rosenbach 91

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Arthur Kraft Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. F.F. Beer
Accession Year: 1952
Object Number: BR52.393
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

Berlin: Images of the City, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/08/1982 - 12/31/1982

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