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This is a drawing in a book, featuring a shadowy figure in a dark room. The drawing is on the right page of an open book, with the left page containing text in German. The drawing shows a creature with exaggerated features, including large eyes, standing in a slightly bent posture. The creature is stylized with dramatic contrasts of black and white. The background includes blurred and abstract shapes, possibly hinting at more objects or figures. Bold lines and intense shadowing give the drawing a haunting and expressive quality.
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This is a drawing in a book, featuring a shadowy figure in a dark room. The drawing is on the right page of an open book, with the left page containing text in German. The drawing shows a creature with exaggerated features, including large eyes, standing in a slightly bent posture. The creature is stylized with dramatic contrasts of black and white. The background includes blurred and abstract shapes, possibly hinting at more objects or figures. Bold lines and intense shadowing give the drawing a haunting and expressive quality.

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Akaki läßt sich einen neuen Mantel anmessen (Akaki Gets Fit for a New Coat) (plate 5) from Der Mantel (The Coat)

Walter Gramatté

Date
1919
Medium
lithograph from a bound volume with 12 lithographs and one relief print on laid JW Zanders paper
Dimensions
book: 25.8 × 20.4 × 1 cm (10 3/16 × 8 1/16 × 3/8 in.)
Classification
Volume
Accession number
2012.92.623.6
Credit line
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Time span
1901 to 1925
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record

Portfolio and series

Volume
Der Mantel (The Coat)

Subjects and terms

  • lithograph
Provenance

(C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased August 3, 1988; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Inscription

First lithograph signed and dated in graphite bottom right: Walter Gramatté / 18.; the remaining 11 lithographs initialed in graphite: WG[?] 18

NGA object ID 228033. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.