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","remarks":"K4-6 July 2014 Rotation"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Special Exhibition","textentryhtml":"Drawn from memory, Munch’s lithograph depicts the artist and his family gathered around his fifteen-year-old sister Sophie—seated in a wicker chair, with her back toward us—at the moment of her death from tuberculosis in 1877. The mourners include Munch’s father and aunt, his sisters Inger and Laura, his brother, Andreas, and the artist himself at age fourteen, staring into center space. Deathbed family portraits were not uncommon in middle-class Scandinavian households in the 1890s, when the mortality rate from infectious diseases such as tuberculosis had reached catastrophic proportions in northern Europe.","remarks":"States of Health"}],"media":[{"id":12493,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/x1960-83_GS","isprimary":0,"rank":10,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"Luna Digitization Project"},{"id":83577,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/INV10280","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"Inventory Project"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"
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\"Recent acquisitions\", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 20, no. 1 (1961): p. 24-27.

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\"Recent acquisitions\", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 20, no. 1 (1961): p. 24-27.

, p. 26","date":1961,"id":3371,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774336"},{"boilertext":"Gustav Schiefler, Verzeichnis der graphischen Werks Edvard Munchs (Oslo: J. W. Cappelen, 1974).","citation":"Gustav Schiefler, Verzeichnis der graphischen Werks Edvard Munchs (Oslo: J. W. Cappelen, 1974)., no. 72, p. 70","date":1974,"id":6436,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/28792066"},{"boilertext":"Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch: the Complete Graphic Works (New York: harry N. Abrams, in association with the Munch-Musset, Oslo, 2001).","citation":"Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch: the Complete Graphic Works (New York: harry N. Abrams, in association with the Munch-Musset, Oslo, 2001)., no. 65","date":2001,"id":6437,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/46937502"}],"exhibitions":[{"exhibitionid":3617,"citation":"States of Health: Visualizing Illness and Healing (November 2, 2019 –Sunday, February 2, 2020)","isvirtual":true,"begindate":"2019-11-02","enddate":"2020-02-02","uri":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/exhibitions/3617"}],"geography":[{"displaygeography":"Place made: Europe, France, Paris","code":"Place made","continent":"Europe","subcontinent":null,"country":"France","region":null,"state":null,"city":"Paris","county":null,"subregion":null,"locale":null,"locus":null,"river":null,"excavation":null,"geoname":"http://www.geonames.org/2968815/paris.html","location":{"lat":"","lon":""}}],"terms":[{"id":2088270,"term":"men","aatid":300025928,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2031665,"term":"Norwegian","aatid":300111201,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2088280,"term":"women","aatid":300025943,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2054256,"term":"prints","aatid":300041273,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2135437,"term":"deaths","aatid":300151836,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2055657,"term":"figures (representations)","aatid":300189808,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2105940,"term":"bedrooms","aatid":300004364,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2054597,"term":"lithographs","aatid":300041379,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2155010,"term":"lithography","aatid":300053271,"termtype":"Techniques"},{"id":2167709,"term":"lithographic ink","aatid":300187750,"termtype":"Materials"}],"classifications":[{"id":2054256,"classification":"prints"},{"id":2054597,"classification":"lithographs"}],"cultures":[],"cultureterms":[{"id":2031665,"culture":"Norwegian"}],"periods":[],"periodterms":[],"attribute_groups":[{"id":2199327,"term":"Prints and Drawings","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"40.50"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"56.00"}],"packages":[{"packageid":194314,"name":"PUAM_States of Health"},{"packageid":207234,"name":"SAB_Gala2021"},{"packageid":184819,"name":"web_SOH_1"}],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/INV10280"],"displaymaker":"Edvard Munch, 1863–1944; born Loten, Norway; died Oslo, Norway | Printed by Auguste Clot, French, 1858–1936","displayculture":null,"displayperiod":null,"caption":"Edvard Munch (1863–1944; born Loten, Norway; died Oslo, Norway), Printed by Auguste Clot (French, 1858–1936), Death in the Sickroom, 1896. Lithograph; 40.5 × 56 cm. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hobart D. Betts III, Class of 1956 (x1960-83)","captionhtml":"Edvard Munch (1863–1944; born Loten, Norway; died Oslo, Norway), Printed by Auguste Clot (French, 1858–1936), Death in the Sickroom, 1896. Lithograph; 40.5 × 56 cm. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hobart D. Betts III, Class of 1956 (x1960-83)","published_date":"2026-02-11 08:24:02.559892","campusart":[{"campuscollections":"false","campusart":0,"neighborhood":null,"lat":null,"lon":null}],"extended_content":true}