The sorrows of Werter. The last interview

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Title: The sorrows of Werter. The last interview
Alternative Title: Last interview
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, etcher
Contributor: Collings, Samuel, artist.
Jackson, Elizabeth, publisher.
Published / Created: [29 March 1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. March 29 1786 by E. Jackson No. 14 Marylebone Street Golden Square
Abstract: Werter clutches his head in anguish as he stands before Charlotte on a sofa supporting her head on one hand as she reaches out imploringly towards Werter. The pictures on the wall amplify the subject
Description: Title etched below image.
Text below publisher's line: At length with the firm determined voice of Virtue she cried Werter, and he was awed by it, tearing himself from her arms.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark in center of sheet.
Provenance: Suckling; November 1958.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25 x 35 cm, on sheet 26.5 x 37 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Etchings England London 1786
Material: etching with stipple engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
Subject (Topic): Couples
Distress
Grief
Love
Parlors
Subjects: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
Couples
Distress
Grief
Love
Parlors
England > 1786
England > London > 1786

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