William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : original artwork 1785-1916

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William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : original artwork 1785-1916

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The William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana: Original Artwork is an artificial collection comprising original artwork that came to Yale from various sources, mostly during the Speck Collection's early decades. It includes some of the Collection's best-known holdings, including an anonymous silhouette made of Goethe in 1786 as well as original sketches and engravings by Goethe. Other artists represented include Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Georg Melchior Kraus, Johann Heinrich Lips, and Moritz Retzsch.

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Retzsch, Moritz, 1779-1857

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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a leading German dramatist, poet, and literary theorist best remembered for such dramas as Die Rauber (1781; The Robbers), the Wallenstein trilogy (1800-01), Maria Stuart (1801), and Wilhelm Tell (1804). Friedrich von Schiller - Encyclopedia Britannica Online http://www.eb.com (Retrieved May 5, 2009) Friedrich August Moritz Retsch was born in the Saxon capital Dresden. He joined the Dresden Academy of Arts in 1798 under Cajetan...

Friedrich, W. (Woldemar), 1846-1910

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Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845

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British painter and illustrator. From the description of Robert Smirke papers, 1804-1840. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84215057 ...

Preller, Friedrich, 1804-1878

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

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Hackert, Philipp, 1737-1807

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Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805

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Kaulbach, Wilhelm von, 1804-1874

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Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928

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William A. Speck, the son of German immigrants, was born in New York City in 1864. A pharmacist by profession, he amassed the largest Goethe collection outside of Germany. In 1913, he and his collection came from Haverstraw, New York to Yale, where he served as curator of the Speck Collection until his death in 1928. For further biographical information on William A. Speck and a general history and description of the Speck Collection, see the finding aid for the William A. Speck Collection of Go...

Kraus, Georg Melchior, 1733-1806

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882

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Lips, Johann Heinrich, 1758-1817

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Gore, Charles, 1729-1807

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Neureuther, Eugen, 1806-1882

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