A work made of etching with open bite and drypoint in black ink on heavyweight cream wove paper.

The Dead Mother and Her Child

1901

Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944) printed by Otto Felsing (German, born 1854)

Artist
Edvard Munch
Origin
Norway
Medium
Etching with open bite and drypoint in black ink on heavyweight cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 32.3 × 49.4 cm (12 3/4 × 19 1/2 in.); Sheet: 42.1 × 58.6 cm (16 5/8 × 23 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment
Reference Number #
1944.591
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The Girl by the Window

Edvard Munch

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A work made of drypoint and open bite in black on cream wove paper.

Consolation

Edvard Munch

Drypoint and open bite in black on cream wove paper

1894

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1896

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Handcolored lithograph in black on mottled gray-blue wove paper (discolored to gray-green), laid down on white wove paper

1895/96