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Gretchen Fainting at Church
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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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Francis Calley Gray bequest to nephew 1856.
William Gray gift to Harvard University 1857.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Title: Gretchen Fainting at Church
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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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