"Das Krankenzimmer" or "The Sick Room"

"Das Krankenzimmer" or "The Sick Room"

Lithograph

Black and white lithograph of "Das Krankenzimmer" or "The Sick Room" which is part of a series of works artist Rachel Szalit-Marcus did for Sholom Aleichem's "Menshelakh un Stsenes" published in 1922. The image is of a older man laying in a bed with a young boy by his side, an woman to his right and a man, probably a doctor, seated at the foot of the bed. Medicine bottles are on the bedside table and a Star of David is over the mans head on the wall.

Szalit-Marcus, Rachel

Lowenstein Family Papers and Art, B333

Ira M. and Peryle Hayutin Beck Memorial Archives

1920

B333.08.0003.0001.00001