Page from a book with Mephitophiles and Faust

Can anyone help me with this? It appears to be a page from a book written in German. There is a woodcut print image of Mephistopheles and references to Faust in the text. On the bottom there writing in pencil that reads 83-71-13.

Is it old? What is its value? What should I do with it?

Thanks for your help!

 

The book presumably was Goethe's Faust. I can see this being of interest to a dealer in prints. Not sure what else can be done with it. How did you come to have the lone page?

 

Try Goethe's Walpurgisnacht illustrated with Ernst Barlach's woodcuts and published in 1923.

Debora

 

Walpurgisnacht is a chapter of the Faust.
Ernst Barlach was a well-known artist in graphics. expressionism. here a woodcut, one of 20. unclear from which edition.
1923 Paul Cassirer
1955 Buchheim Verlag
1967 Droste Verlag
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walpurgisnacht_(Ernst_Barlach)

 

It was among a collection of prints that I inherited from my mother. I’m not sure where she got it.

 

The pencil notation would likely be a dealer's.

Debora

 

looks like a date when turned 180°.

 

Boy, you have better eyes than I! Does appear to be upside down. 83-71-D?

Debora

 

https://brierhillgallery.com/ernst-barlach




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