Three religious miniatures, including a colored portrait of St. Peter and a mounted engraving depicting Jacob and Joseph with a manuscript caption in Lavater's hand

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Description

Title: Three religious miniatures, including a colored portrait of St. Peter and a mounted engraving depicting Jacob and Joseph with a manuscript caption in Lavater's hand
Creator: From the Collection: Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801
Published / Created: undated
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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    THIS ITEM Three religious miniatures, including a colored portrait of St. Peter and a mounted engraving depicting Jacob and Joseph with a manuscript caption in Lavater's hand

Container / Volume

Box 2, folder 33

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