People gathered around a candle-lit table; one man, held by another appears terrified, one person holds a glass, and a large figure looms in the background. Aquatint. by K. Hofer, 1899.

[Karlsruhe] : [Verein für Original-Radirung], [1899]

1 print : aquatint, with etching and drypoint ; platemark 19.3 x 29.7 cm, image 18.8 x 25.3 cm

Attribution to Karl Hofer kindly supplied by Mr Domenico Pino in an email to the Wellcome Collection 5 June 2020, citing the impression in the Galerie Bassenge auction, loc. cit.

Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, auction no. 115, 6 June 2020, 'Works on paper - Aus einer deutschen Privatsammlung', lot 8020, described as "Geschlossene Gesellschaft. Aquatinta auf festem Velin. 1899. 19,5 x 29,8 cm (30,5 x 36,6 cm). Rathenau R 1. … Die Auflage erschien beim "Verein für Original-Radirung", Heft VI, Karlsruhe 1899."

Ernest Rathenau, Karl Hofer: Das graphische Werk, New York 1969, no. R1

'Quiz for our readers', Print quarterly, December 2019, XXXVI, no. 4, p. 457

Wellcome Collection 35084i