Research Catalog

Title

Drawings depicting people on the streets of Prague [graphic].

Author

Hoffmeister, Adolf, 1902-

Publication

1921

Details

Description

6 drawings : pen & ink, b&w; 25 x 34 cm.

Summary

Drawings showing a visitor entering Prague, bags in hand, and various scenes on the streets, including Jews, women in fashionable clothes, peasants, including one with a pig on a string, and another with long-horned cattle, a speeding car splashing pedestrians, tipsy men leaving a drinking establishement, and an interior view of a cafe, including a young man sweeping and men reading and drinking. Includes images of men smoking pipes, cigars and cigarettes.

Subjects

• Pen works
• Drawings > Czech
• Cartoons
• Prague (Czech Republic)
• Tobacco pipes
• Swine
• Sweeping and dusting
• Streets
• Smoking
• Reading
• Peasants
• Newspaper vendors
• Jews
• Intoxication
• Eating & drinking
• Cigars
• Cigarettes
• Cattle
• Automobiles

Genre/Form

• Cartoons.
• Drawings – Czech.
• Pen works.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Each drawing initialled and dated 1921 in lower right.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Language (note)

• In commercial sketch book with detached wrappers.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Detailed finding aid available

Call Number

Arents 96-354

OCLC

NYPG96-F87

Author

Hoffmeister, Adolf, 1902- Artist

Title

Drawings depicting people on the streets of Prague [graphic].

Imprint

1921

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Arents Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Language

In commercial sketch book with detached wrappers.

Indexes

Detailed finding aid available: item level control.

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Research Call Number

Arents 96-354