Trommelfreund

Janberg, W.

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

1918

Height:

29.7 cm  (11 11/16 in.)

Width:

21.0 cm  (8 1/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

black ink, wash and crayon

Place of creation:

Deutschland

Additional titles

Description

A human skeleton dressed in a long robe marches between two bomb craters or trenches playing a military drum. The figure is standing up straight with its head held high and gazing slightly upward.

Iconclass

48CC7341
drum (musical instrument) - CC - out of doors
31F26(+5)
Death as skeleton (+ Death with musical instrument)
45A1
war
48CC7524
one person playing percussion instrument - CC - out of doors
45A10
symbols, allegories of war; 'Guerra' (Ripa)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Side drum [2729] (military drum)

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Eitner, Lorenz, Betsy Geraghty Fryberger, Carol Margot Osborne, and Dwight C. Miller. Stanford University Museum of Art, the Drawing Collection (Stanford CA: Stanford University Museum of Art ; Seattle: Distributed by University of Washington Press, 1993) 399, no. 769.

RIdIM record id

5401