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Commemoration table for Caroline Brunner: P.1985-1991

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Commemoration table for Caroline Brunner

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Kauders, Wilhelm

Entities

Categories

Legal notes

Bequest of Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950, transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

Place(s) associated

  • Frankfurt

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

Production date: AD 1895

School or Style

German

Materials used in production

Black ink
Coloured ink
Red ink
Gold pigment
Black carbon ink

Components of the work

Support composed of wove paper ( laid down onto backing board)
Image Height 352 mm Width 478 mm
Sheet Height 478 mm Width 595 mm

Techniques used in production

Lithography : Printed monument design, with the name and other details of Brunner drawn in ink and gold pigment into a central cartouche, with commemoration days inscribed into a table on either side
Colour printing

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: GEDENK - BLATT / an den Sterbetag / meiner theuren sel. Mutter
  • Location: Image upper centre, on pediment and entablature
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: Der Körper kehrt zur Erde zurück
  • Location: Image upper left, on entablature
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: Der Geist schwingt sich auf zu Gott.
  • Location: Image upper right, on entablature
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: Frau / Caroline Brunner / gestarben am / 3. Juli 1895 / 11. Tamus / im Alter von / 63 Jahren / Ehre ihrem Andenken!
  • Location: Image centre, in cartouche
  • Method of creation: Black ink, red ink, gold pigment
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: Eine Leuchte Gottes - ist des Menschen Seele.
  • Location: Image upper left and right, above the tables with dates
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: RUHE SANFT
  • Location: Image lower centre, on the ribbon of a wreath
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: Die Jahrzeit beginnt am Vorabend.
  • Location: Image lower centre
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: Gearbeitet & zu beziehen von Wilhelm Kauders, Frankfurt a/M.
  • Location: Lower left
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Signature

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.1985-1991
Primary reference Number: 94749
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 25 October 2021 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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