G3488: Faust Offering His Arm to Gretchen

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

Permissions

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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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