Back Doors

Skip to main content
Collections Menu
Image Not Available for Back Doors
Back Doors
Image Not Available for Back Doors

Back Doors

Daten.d.
MediumWoodcut
Dimensions215 × 162 mm. (8 7/16 × 6 3/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Blanche Adler
Object number1928.30.233
NOT ON VIEW
Last Updated1/11/24
Image Not Available for Doors, Chaco Canyon
Doors, Chaco Canyon
1974
Image Not Available for The Wanton Turn'd Out of Doors for Misconduct
The Wanton Turn'd Out of Doors for Misconduct
Thomas Gaugain
1797
Image Not Available for Robert Macaire, salesman in Bibles. - (Bertrand): The subscribers claim that we are swindlers, thieves... I mean purloiners, and they are kicking... er, I mean, turning us out. - (Robert): What expressions to use, you rascal... you must address me more decently or I kick... er, I mean push you out of the door. It's you highfaluting manner, your high pitched twaddle, that riles the subscribers. Stop that! If they throw you out of the door, go back through the rear window... if they slap your face, turn your other cheek... but don't you come back here without subscriptions, or I ... well, never mind!
Robert Macaire, salesman in Bibles. - (Bertrand): The subscribers claim that we are swindlers, thieves... I mean purloiners, and they are kicking... er, I mean, turning us out. - (Robert): What expressions to use, you rascal... you must address me more decently or I kick... er, I mean push you out of the door. It's you highfaluting manner, your high pitched twaddle, that riles the subscribers. Stop that! If they throw you out of the door, go back through the rear window... if they slap your face, turn your other cheek... but don't you come back here without subscriptions, or I ... well, never mind!
1838
Image Not Available for Your suit fits.... I'll borrow it from you... only, please close the door, I can feel a draft on my back. - Oh blast, the door is shut,..... but you just opened the only suit I have.
Your suit fits.... I'll borrow it from you... only, please close the door, I can feel a draft on my back. - Oh blast, the door is shut,..... but you just opened the only suit I have.
1845
Image Not Available for The Return of Ulysses. / At the door to the palace his faithful poodles / the only to recognize him - refused their noodles / they came with their plates to help in the fight / to an endevaour that brought Ithaca back to light.
The Return of Ulysses. / At the door to the palace his faithful poodles / the only to recognize him - refused their noodles / they came with their plates to help in the fight / to an endevaour that brought Ithaca back to light.
1842
Image Not Available for The Four Angels Holding Back the Winds, and the Marking of the Elect
The Four Angels Holding Back the Winds, and the Marking of the Elect
c. 1496-1498, printed 1511
Image Not Available for Back Porch in Winter
Back Porch in Winter
c. 1940-1941
Image Not Available for The other day, I pulled off another smart trick... I had set up a firm with a capital of ten million francs to exploit top boots in cardboard ... I had placed only eight shares worth a petty 1200 francs... I called together my eight shareholders and held forth in something like the following manner: "Ah! Good-day ye strolling gentlemen, how handsome you are, how fine you seem!" I promised them more cheese than bread, I gave them a 50% dividend, I warmed them up a bit and let them simmer... The following day they couldn't get hold of my shares fast enough, I placed all of them and at the next meeting I said: "The last time I did the books I made a mistake. I forgot to take into account the price of the cardboard and its fabrication. You must return the dividend I gave you, I'm going to hold it back... I put down nothing and kept back the r
The other day, I pulled off another smart trick... I had set up a firm with a capital of ten million francs to exploit top boots in cardboard ... I had placed only eight shares worth a petty 1200 francs... I called together my eight shareholders and held forth in something like the following manner: "Ah! Good-day ye strolling gentlemen, how handsome you are, how fine you seem!" I promised them more cheese than bread, I gave them a 50% dividend, I warmed them up a bit and let them simmer... The following day they couldn't get hold of my shares fast enough, I placed all of them and at the next meeting I said: "The last time I did the books I made a mistake. I forgot to take into account the price of the cardboard and its fabrication. You must return the dividend I gave you, I'm going to hold it back... I put down nothing and kept back the r
1838
Image Not Available for The Old Method. - Ah, how very funny.... so you are planning to spend the rest of your life tying paper tails to the back of some flies!... Let me see your hands... and you'll only pull them back, when I tell you so!
The Old Method. - Ah, how very funny.... so you are planning to spend the rest of your life tying paper tails to the back of some flies!... Let me see your hands... and you'll only pull them back, when I tell you so!
1845
Image Not Available for The Baptism of Christ
The Baptism of Christ
1899
Image Not Available for Cyclamen (recto and verso)
Cyclamen (recto and verso)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1919
Image Not Available for Sounds
Sounds
Wassily Kandinsky
1913