Kurzweil (Past-time or Amusing the Baby)

 

Emil Orlik

  1870 - 1932 (biography)

1897  

etching 

2 9/16 x 2" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

signed proof 

 

Shutte 39; Dennerlein 1684; Söhn 52803; Rifkind 2180, illustrated, page 586 

ivory laid 

i/ii, before the signature was added in the plate 

Pan magazine, volume 3, 1897, published an unsigned edition of about 2000 

5825 

$500.00 

This was the first of Orlik's prints to be published, in Pan, volume 3, 1897. Pan published between 1895 and 1900. From the estate of Danish scholar Georg Brochner.