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Ernst Keil

Ernst Keil

(German, 1825 – 1884)
(German, 1832 – 1901)
1878
Medium/TechniqueWood engraving (letterpress on verso)
DimensionsSheet: 29 × 20.3 cm (11 7/16 × 8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession numberK5718
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsLower left, in block: AN Lower right, A. Neumann. X. A Lower center, in block: Ernst Keil [in facsimile script] Lower center, in letterpress: Nach einer Photographie von W. Höffert in Leipzig auf Holz gezeichnet von Adolf Neumann.
ProvenanceBy 1898, Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA.

NOTE: Koehler was the first print curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. The gift of Mr. Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.