PrintsGerman19th century
Gretchen Fainting at Church
1816
Artists
Ferdinand RuscheweyhArtist
Peter CorneliusArtist after
Description
Part of a series of twelve engravings, including a title and a dedication page, illustrating Goethe’s Faust printed by Wenner in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1816. The twelve prints after Peter Cornelius, with eleven engravings by Ferdinand Ruscheweyh and one by Julius Caesar Thäter (see Apell 20).
Dimensions
plate: 47.8 x 58.2 cm (18 13/16 x 22 15/16 in.) sheet: 58.5 x 73.7 cm (23 1/16 x 29 in.)
Provenance
Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856. William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.
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