Details

Subject(s)

• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832—Portraits [Browse]
• Portraits, German—19th century [Browse]
• Philosophers—Germany18th century—Portraits [Browse]
• Authors, German—18th century—Portraits [Browse]
• Authors, German—19th century—Portraits [Browse]
• Philosophers—Germany—19th century—Portraits [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Portraits [Browse]

Notes

• Medium: Crayons
• Inscribed, lower right: "Nach der Natur gezeichnet v.L. Sebbers, Weimar den 7. September, 1826".
• Item description: Described in an article in the New York Times, that it is said to be the finest in existence. And one of the best liknesses of the great German poet in his later years.

Source acquisition

Gift of George A. Armour, Princeton University Class of 1877.

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