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Titles: | The Dungeon Scene (The End of the Tragedy) Plate 12 from Bilder zu Goethes Faust, first edition (Frankfurt am Main: Johann Friedrich Wenner, 1826) |
Date: | 1815-1816 (published 1826) |
Artists: | Ferdinand Ruscheweyh (German, 1785–1846) After a drawing of 1815 by Peter von Cornelius (German, 1783–1867) Published by Johann Friedrich Wenner (German, 1772–1835) |
Medium: | Etching and engraving |
Dimensions: | Image: 13 11/16 x 18 1/8 inches (34.8 x 46 cm) Plate: 15 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches (39.4 x 50.2 cm) Sheet: 21 1/4 x 27 5/16 inches (54 x 69.4 cm) |
Classification: | Prints |
Credit Line: | Acquired with the Muriel and Philip Berman Gift (by exchange) and with the gifts (by exchange) of Lisa Norris Elkins, Bryant W. Langston, Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White, William Goldman, Herbert T. Church, R. Edward Ross, Jay Cooke, Carl Zigrosser, John Sheldon, the Charles M. Lea Collection, the William S. Pilling Collection, the Louis E. Stern Collection, the Print Club of Philadelphia Permanent Collection, and with funds contributed (by exchange) from John Howard McFadden, Jr. Thomas Skelton Harrison, and the Philip and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation and the Edgar Viguers Seeler Fund, 2008 |
Accession Number: | 2008-97-12 |
Geography: | Published in Germany, Europe |
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