print;
portfolio
- Museum number
- 1995,1210.1.1
- Title
- Series: Scenes from Goethe's Faust
- Description
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Goethe wearing a laurel wreath seated at his desk writing Faust; he is surrounded by numerous characters including protagonists from this tale; two angels holding up a large palette inscribed 'Faust' are hovering above; first of a set of eight lithographs illustrating scenes from Goethe's 'Faust. Part I'; after a drawing by Cornelius. 1835-6
Lithograph
- Production date
- 1835
- Dimensions
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Height: 297 millimetres
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Width: 400 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The set of eight lithographs (the title-page with publication detail is lacking) was commissioned under the patronage of Anton Heinrich Radziwill, a Polish statesman and composer of a musical version of Goethe's Faust on which he worked 1811-30; he suggested the images he wanted his artists to draw. The artists involved were Biermann, Cornelius, Hensel, Hosemann, Fürst Ferdinand Radziwill, C. Schulz and Zimmermann. Their designs were drawn on the stone by Eichens, Hosemann, Jentzen, L'oeillot de Mars and Meyerheim. The publication was available exclusively from the premises of T.Trautwein in Berlin, no. 8 Breite Strasse, at the price of 6 Reichsthaler and 18 Groschen. The lithographs were published in a horizontal oblong format. (See "Katalog der Sammlung Kippenberg", 2nd edn, Leipzig, 1928, vol.1, no.1906.) There were two editions: the first in 1835; the second in 1836. As the title-page is missing, it is uncertain which edition this is.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Faust (Part I)
- Acquisition date
- 1995
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1995,1210.1.1
