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Adam und Eva im Paradise
Medium/Technique
Woodcut, hand colored with wash on paper
Dimensions
Image: 34.4 x 28.1 cm (13 9/16 x 11 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 37.9 x 30.5 cm (14 15/16 x 12 in.)
Sheet: 37.9 x 30.5 cm (14 15/16 x 12 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number58.940
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1380 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art-fraktur.. Temptation of Adam and Eve center, surrounded by sixteen eight-line stanzas, with small vignette of lyre at bottom. Whole enclosed in border of printer's decorations
InscriptionsPrinted above vignette: Reading, gedruckt bey Carl A. Bruckman.
Provenance1958, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 18, 1958)