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Prints and Drawings
Public domain
Artist: Käthe Kollwitz, German, 1867–1945

Die Gefangenen (The Prisoners), plate 7 from the series Bauernkrieg (The Peasants’ War)

1908, later printing

Etching with stipple engraving

platemark: 32 × 42.4 cm (12 5/8 × 16 11/16 in.)
Bequest of Richard G. Mason, M.F.A.D. 1953
2015.19.5
Geography: 
Made in Germany
Status: 
By appointment
Culture: 
German
Period: 
19th–20th century
Classification: 
Works on Paper - Prints
Provenance: 

Craddock & Barnard, London Sale, 14 June 1971; Richard G. Mason estate

Bibliography: 

“Acquisitions 2015,” http://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2015_updated%2012_16_15.pdf (accessed December 1, 2015).

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.