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print
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illustrated book
Object Type
print
illustrated book
Museum number
1983,U.2379.1-13
Title
Object:
Charactères des Poetes
Description
"Charactères des Poetes les plus distingués de l'Allemagne, avec leurs portraits, gravés par l'editeur Mr. Pfenninguer, Peintre" (Zurich, en commission chez les libraires Fussli, et Steiner Winterthour) 1789; containing 16 portraits of distinguished German poets and authors, shown bust-length in oval frames. Bound in blue-green paper boards with letterpress titlepage and biographical descriptions. Etchings
Producer name
Print made by:
Heinrich Pfenninger
School/style
Swiss
Production date
1789
Production place
Published in:
Zürich (city)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
letterpress
Dimensions
Height:
183 millimetres
(approx. sheet size of each page)
Width:
110 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Location
Not on display
Subjects
author/poet
Associated names
Portrait of:
Martin Opitz
Portrait of:
Anna Louise Karsch
Portrait of:
Friedrich Rudolf Ludwig Freiherr von Kanitz
Portrait of:
Johann Jakob Bodmer
Portrait of:
Albrecht Haller
Portrait of:
Friedrich von Hagedorn
Portrait of:
Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener
Portrait of:
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
Portrait of:
Ewald Christian von Kleist
Portrait of:
Johann Caspar Lavater
Portrait of:
Salomon Gessner
Portrait of:
Karl Wilhelm Ramler
Portrait of:
Christoph Martin Wieland
Portrait of:
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Portrait of:
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Portrait of:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Associated titles
Associated Title:
Charactères des Poetes
Acquisition name
Transferred from:
British Library
(transferred as a duplicate in 1889)
Acquisition date
1869
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1983,U.2379.1-13