The Prison Guard

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The Prison Guard

Alternate Title: Der Wärter
Portfolio (orig. lang.): Die Ballade vom Zuchthaus zu Reading
Portfolio (translation): The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Plate: plate 5
Germany, 1907
Prints; woodcuts
Woodcut on handmade paper
Image: 8 1/4 x 5 7/8 in. (20.96 x 14.92 cm); Sheet: 14 5/16 x 8 11/16 in. (36.35 x 22.07 cm)
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies (M.82.288.87e)
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

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  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

    View Volume 1 of this publication in LACMA's Reading Room

    View Volume 2 of this publication in LACMA's Reading Room

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