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Frederic Anthing silhouette and autograph collection, ca. 1916.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 653
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Anthing, Frederic, 1753-1805.
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Genre:
- Autograph albums.
- Watercolors (paintings)
- Silhouettes.
- Manuscripts, German.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Emil Hirsch, who received the item as a gift from Annette von Eckardt in 1916, according to his handwritten note on the front flyleaf.
- Gift of Rudolph Hirsch (Philadelphia), 1956.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (8 leaves)
- Place of Publication:
- ca. 1916.
- Language Note:
- In German, with two entries in French and one in English.
- Summary:
- Facsimile copy produced around or before 1916 by Annette von Eckardt, an artist and copyist based in Munich, of a collection of silhouettes and autographs that was compiled by the silhouette artist and writer Frederic Anthing. The collection contains six silhouettes, of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; August, Duke of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg; Carl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach; Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach; Katharina Countess zu Stolberg; and Emily Gore. The silhouettes are embedded in watercolor illustrations by Anthing and accompanied by handwritten autograph entries by the subjects, dated 1787[?] to 1791. The entry by Goethe is a four-line poem composed by him for the occasion of his signing ("Es mag ganz artig seyn..."). The other entries include a poem in French; a quotation from Shakespeare's Macbeth; and a personal message from Stolberg. The facsimiles of the silhouettes and drawings have been watercolored by Eckardt by hand. In addition, a round cut-out etching of a portrait of Goethe is affixed to the leaf bearing the entry by him. The front cover is adorned with a painted silhouette of Goethe. According to the former owner Emil Hirsch, the originals upon which Eckardt based the facsimiles were owned at the time by Mrs. Schubart-Czermak.
- OCLC:
- 187116850
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