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''House of Stairs'' is a lithograph print by the
Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...
artist M. C. Escher first printed in November 1951. This print measures . It depicts the interior of a tall structure crisscrossed with stairs and doorways. A total of 46 '' wentelteefje'' (imaginary creatures created by Escher) are crawling on the stairs. The ''wentelteefje'' has a long, armored body with six legs, humanoid feet, a parrot-like beak and eyes on stalks. Some are seen to roll in through doors, wound in a wheel shape and then unroll to crawl up the stairs, while others crawl down stairs and wind up to roll out. The ''wentelteefje'' first appeared earlier the same month in the lithograph ''
Curl-up ''Curl-up'' or ''Wentelteefje'' (original Dutch title) is a lithograph print by M. C. Escher, first printed in November 1951. This is the only work by Escher consisting largely of text. The text, which is written in Dutch, describes an imaginary ...
''. Later that month, ''House of Stairs'' was extended to a vertical length of in a print titled ''House of Stairs II'' by repeating and mirroring some of the architecture and creatures.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:House Of Stairs Works by M. C. Escher 1951 prints