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Penelope
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The Leuckart Diploma (Penelope)
Penelope
Max Klinger (German, 1857–1920)
German
1895
Medium/Technique
Etching, engraving, and aquatint (two plates) together with four lithographic stone plates (blue, green, yellow-green and pink)
Dimensions
Platemark: 19.8 × 30.7 cm (7 13/16 × 12 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 28.7 × 37.9 cm (11 5/16 × 14 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 28.7 × 37.9 cm (11 5/16 × 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP4085
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Singer 276, iv (regular edition of Pan)
Description"The famous Leipzig zoologist Leuckart was honored by his students with this composition on the fiftieth anniversary of his doctorate. The weaving loom is taken from the pattern on the vase in Chiusi." p. 282 Singer
Signed
l.l. within image MK / 95
InscriptionsPenelope von Max Klinger Sechsplattendruck. Pan I 5
ProvenanceEarly provenance not researched; Henry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York, Lugt 1309); purchased by MFA, November 1897.