Object Timeline

1936

  • Work on this object began.

1946

  • Work on this object ended.

1961

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

  • You found it!

Drawing, A-Climbing We Will Go

This is a Drawing. It was created by Baron Ernst von Maydell. It is dated ca. 1941 and we acquired it in 1961. Its medium is brush and watercolors over graphite on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is inscribed

Bottom left, in pencil: "E. Maydell"

Cite this object as

Drawing, A-Climbing We Will Go; Baron Ernst von Maydell (1881 – 1961); Germany; brush and watercolors over graphite on paper; 1961-89-1

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