Letters from Goethe to Lavater, 1774 to 1783

author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Frankfurt, 1749 - 1832, Weimar)

publisher Weidmannsche Buchhandlung (active 1680 - 1983)

Date1833

Place MadeGermany, Europe

MediumPrinted ink on paper

Dimensions17.1 x 11.4 x 1.6 cm (6 3/4 x 4 1/2 x 5/8 in.)

ClassificationsBooks

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession number10.b.2.1

eMuseum ID726961

EmbARK ObjectID19037

TMS Source ID6533

Last Updated8/9/24

Description174 p. facsims. 17 cm.

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.

MarksNotes

Inscribed in pencil (inside front cover, top center): ltb / 7.50 c

Inscribed in black ink (inside front cover, center): J.R. Lowell / Dresden, 1855.

Inscribed in black ink (front flyleaf, center) [?]

Inscribed in pencil: Wuland's Oberon 89-165 / Bodmet 89 - / Talent and Genie 95- / Cagliostro 120-131- / Leping's death 121 - / No great man without great heart. 123 - / Goethe 137-144-147 -150-152-165

ProvenanceNotesIn the collection of the American poet James Russell Lowell (1819-1891).
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the bookseller Goodspeed's Book Shop, Boston, for $7.50 on 7 February 1921.