Charlotte from the Sorrows of Werter / [graphic]

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Title: Charlotte from the Sorrows of Werter / [graphic]
Creator: White, Charles William, active 1775-1807, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
White, Charles William, active 1775-1807, publisher.
Published / Created: [21 March 1782]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published March the 21st, 1782, by C.W. White, Kemps Row, Chelsea, London
Abstract: "A young woman in fashionable dress standing whole-length to front, head bowed to right, her hands clasped together in front of her in fur-trimmed gloves; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury, first (possibly only) state, from a series."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Illustration to Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther.
"Plate the 13th"--Lower right corner.
Mounted on page 4 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 24.5 x 20 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 4. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792]

Genre: Illustrations
Genre prints
Book illustrations
Stipple engravings England London 1782
Material: stipple engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
Subjects: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 > Illustrations
England > London > 1782
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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