Caricature - Oberländer, Adolf. The big dumplings. 3 pen and ink drawings on thin paper. All sheets titled and numbered by hand, the last drawing signed and dated lower left. Munich, 1902. motif dimensions: each 19 x 33 cm. Sheet dimensions: each 23.5 x 36.5 cm. Humorous series of pictures by the Bavarian artist Adolf Adam Oberländer (1845-1923), who mainly drew for the "Fliegende Blätter" and later also for the "Münchener Bilderbogen". - Titled and numbered again in pencil by another hand verso and with a date stamp "5. JAN 1903". - Slightly browned, fingerstained and creased, with pinholes in the upper white margin, verso with traces of an earlier mounting in the upper margin. VAT: #

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