Vegetable Sheet
Medium
Etching on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 17.6 × 24.4 cm (6 15/16 × 9 5/8 in.); Sheet: 19.3 × 26.1 cm (7 5/8 × 10 5/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
141434
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Carl Wilhelm Kolbe’s most famous prints may be his loose series of painstakingly detailed studies of foliage, which he called Kräuterblätter. The series title can be translated as Vegetable Sheets or, in a humorous double entendre, Vegetable Leaves, based on the fact that the prints (on leaves, or sheets of paper) themselves show a variety of gigantic leafy plants. This particular etching is one of the smallest in the series. Although this sheet’s plants flourish alone, Kolbe often created a con...