Four engraved scenes mounted on black cardboard with manuscript captions of two-line moral aphorisms in Lavater's hand mounted beneath

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Lavater collection (YCGL MSS 13) > Series II: Other Artwork > [MEYER, CONRAD] > Four engraved scenes mounted on black cardboard with manuscript captions of two-line moral aphorisms in Lavater's hand mounted beneath

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Description

Title: Four engraved scenes mounted on black cardboard with manuscript captions of two-line moral aphorisms in Lavater's hand mounted beneath
Creator: From the Collection: Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801
Published / Created: undated
Description: One print by Conrad Meyer
Provenance: The provenance of the collection is uncertain, although it may have been part of the material, called simply "prints," purchased in 1926 from descendants of Lavater, Waldemar C. Hirschfeld (Yale certificate in architecture, 1903) and his brother Robert Lavater Hirschfeld, both then of Meriden, Connecticut.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: German

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

YCGL MSS 13

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  - Series II: Other Artwork, 1776-1799
    [MEYER, CONRAD]
    THIS ITEM Four engraved scenes mounted on black cardboard with manuscript captions of two-line moral aphorisms in Lavater's hand mounted beneath

Container / Volume

Box 1, folder 28

Access: Public
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Citation: Lavater Collection. Yale Collection of German Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.