Identification title(s): equality of all positions in the grave. Object type: print object number: rp-p-ob-13. 532. Catalog reference: bauer 100. Engelmann 60. Collection rijksmuseum-2(2). Inscriptions / marks: collector's mark, verso, stamped: lugt 240 inscription, recto lower right, written in pen: 'v s'. Description: in the middle of a field is a grave monument with the text 'quot quot distant'. On top a skeleton with a scythe, sitting on a fallen human. Men, women and children from all classes approach the grave monument. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: daniel nikolaus chodowiecki (mentioned on object), after own design by: daniel nikolaus chodowiecki (mentioned on object), client: johann freiherr von labes. Place of manufacture: berlin. Dating: 1770. Physical features: etching. Material: paper technique: etching. Dimensions: sheet: h 185 mm × w 232 mm (cut off on the left inside the plate edge) explanation this print is part of four prints that chodowiecki made for the memorial speech for carolina maria, widow of godfried adolf daum. The client was her son-in-law, johann freiherr von labes. Also used as an illustration in: porree, johann friedrich. Gedächtnisrede auf (. . ) frau carolina maria verwittwete daum, gebohrene oloffen (. . ) berlin: printed by georg jacob decker, 1770. Subject: what: grave-building, monumental tomb division into classes (~ society). Death as skeleton (+ death with scythe). Who: carolina maria daum. Acquisition: transfer of management 1816. Date: 1770.
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