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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G3488
People
Ferdinand Ruscheweyh, German (1785 - 1846)
After Peter Cornelius, German (1783 - 1867)
Title
Faust Offering His Arm to Gretchen
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Bilder zu Goethe's Faust
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1816
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Germany
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/279766

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving on cream wove paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 40.4 x 39.6 cm (15 7/8 x 15 9/16 in.)
sheet: 58.5 x 73.1 cm (23 1/16 x 28 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, lower left: P. Cornelius del. 1811
  • inscription: in plate, lower right: Ferd. Ruscheweyh fc. Roma 1814

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Apell 20, Le Blanc 35

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G3488
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

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).

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