Identification title(s): two scenes from bürger's poems. Object type: print object number: rp-p-ob-13. 973. Catalog reference: bauer 506, 507engelmann 234, 235-1(2). Inscriptions / marks: collector's mark, verso, stamped: lugt 2228. Description: on the left a scene based on the ballad 'lenore'. Lenore sits behind wilhelm, her fallen fiancé. Together they drive through the gates of the cemetery into the realm of the dead. On the right a scene based on the poem 'der bruder graurock und die pilgerin'. The female pilgrim recognizes her supposedly dead loved one in the doorman of the monastery. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: daniel nikolaus chodowiecki (mentioned on object), after own design by: daniel nikolaus chodowiecki (mentioned on object). Place of manufacture: berlin. Dating: 1778. Physical features: etching; uncut leaf. Material: paper technique: etching. Dimensions: sheet: h 150 mm (cut within the plate edge) × w 186 mm explanation second and third scenes from a series of eight scenes that illustrate the poems of gottfried august bürger. The scenes were etched on two plates. A later version of this series was used in: bürger, gottfried august. Göttingen: johann christian dieterich, 1778. Subject: what: literature spirit, ghostchurchyard, cemeterypilgrim(s)monk(s), friar(s)(lovers) embracing each other, 'symplegma'. Who: gottfried august bürger. Acquisition: unknown 2006. Date: 1778.
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