DAC Collection Search - “Lions and leopards feed their brood, ravens serve up food to their young…”

☰ Open Filter >>

“Lions and leopards feed their brood, ravens serve up food to their young…”

Print this page

No image available.

Bookmark (persistent url): https://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/objects-1/info/6673

“Lions and leopards feed their brood, ravens serve up food to their young…”

1922
20th century
693 x 505 mm (27.3 x 19.9 in.)

George Grosz, German, (1893–1959)

Object Type: print

Medium and Support: Photolithograph (photoreproduction of drawing) on handmade wove paper

Print impression quality: Excellent

Series: Number 5 from set of nine lithographs Die Räuber

Edition: Edition B of 45 impressions printed by Malik-Verlag, Berlin, 1922. Number five from the set of nine lithographs illustrating quotations from Schiller’s drama Die Räuber.

Marks: Signed in pencil, lower right: “Grosz”; numbered in pencil, lower left

Marks: Watermark: J.W. Zanders 1920

Bibliography: See cover sheet in portfolio for edition information and quotations for titles.

Credit Line: Purchase funds, 1961

Accession Number: 1961.9.2.5

Keywords Click a term to view the records with the same keyword

This object has the following keywords:

animals*, birds, food*, ravens, satire*, social satire

animals - This section can use more hierarchical (quasi-Linnaean) refinement in future; extant terms were assembled into a fairly flat and slightly redundant structure to expedite conversion.
birds
food - Use for any material that can be digested or absorbed by the body of a human or other animal and used as a source of energy or some essential nutrient, to build and replace tissue, or to relieve hunger. [April 1995 descriptor changed, was "foodstuff"; lead-in terms added.]
ravens
satire - Artistic device holding up human folly and vice to scorn, derision, or ridicule. [November 1994 scope note added; related term added; alternate term added. May 1994 related term added.]
social satire

Dimensions

sheet Dimensions: 693 x 505 mm (27.3 x 19.9 in.)

DAC Downloadable Open Access Image

No open access image available

Credit Caption

George Grosz, German, (1893–1959) . “Lions and leopards feed their brood, ravens serve up food to their young…”, 1922. From Die Räuber. Photolithograph (photoreproduction of drawing) on handmade wove paper. sheet : 693 x 505 mm (27.3 x 19.9 in.). DAC accession number 1961.9.2.5. Purchase funds, 1961.

Your search criteria: Objects is "“Lions and leopards feed their brood, ravens serve up food to their young…”".

View current selection of records as:

LIDO XML