Stammbuch des Siegmund von Arnim : album containing autograph poems and sentiments : Germany, 1798-1837 1832.

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Stammbuch des Siegmund von Arnim : album containing autograph poems and sentiments : Germany, 1798-1837 1832.

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24 pages of autograph poetry, sentiments, good wishes, and signatures by members of the Brentano, Arnim, and Goethe family circles, including an unidentified stanza signed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and good wishes from Jacob Grimm. Most entries were penned in Frankfurt or Weimar and are dated 1832, though one is dated 1798 and one is dated 1837. With 56 engravings, lithographs, drawings, watercolors, and pages of cutouts. Most illustrations are portraits, some are allegories, and a few are of buildings or religious subjects. Many prints are trimmed; one drawing of a woman at an easel is signed Brentano, another drawing is signed "E.L."; cutouts are primarily of animals, including birds, donkeys, cows, and an ostrich; one cutout shows a man fleeing a fantastic snake. The key to the volume, with the original tag, is mounted on fol. 216r.

1 item (83 p.) : ill. ; 21cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (b. August 29, 1749, Free Imperial City of Frankfurt-d. March 22, 1832, Weimar) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, and natural scientist. He is often ranked with Shakespeare and Dante as one of the three most important poets in history. Goethe gained early fame with The Sorrows of Young Werther, published in 1774, but his most famous work is Faust, a poetic drama in two parts....

Arnim family.

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Goethe family.

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Brentano family.

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Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863

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German philologist and mythologist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Berlin, to Herr Schlemmer, bookseller in Göttingen, 1843 Feb. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270498403 ...

Arnim, Siegmund ˜vonœ 1813-1890

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Son of Bettina and Achim von Arnim; newphew of Clemens Brentano. From the description of Stammbuch des Siegmund von Arnim : album containing autograph poems and sentiments : Germany, 1798-1837 1832. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132694 ...