print;
title-page;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1865,1014.211-212
- Title
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Object: Before him he beheld with triumph and exultation a suicide recking in his own blood
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Object: The Messiah A Sacred Poem From the German of Klopstock
- Description
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Title-page and frontispiece, printed from a single plate.
frontispiece to left: a winged devil kneeling over a man who lies dead on the ground, having committed suicide with a dagger.
titlepage to right: with a vignette of a young woman kneeling in prayer to right, looking up at an angel hovering behind with the spirit of a young man beside it, arms around its neck. 1821
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1821
- Dimensions
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Height: 140 millimetres
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Width: 157 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1867,0713.640-641 for another impression and 1852,1116.513-514 for proofs before letters.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Messiah, A Sacred Poem
- Acquisition date
- 1865
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1865,1014.211-212