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Faust Visiting Gretchen in Prison

Faust Visiting Gretchen in Prison

1785 - 1846

Ferdinand Ruscheweyh

German

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).

Engraving on cream wove paper

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