Werter contemplating on Charlotte's wedding ring

Bonato, Pietro (1765-1820)

Kingsbury, Henry (active 1775-1798) (after a work of)

Kauffmann, Angelica (1741-1807) (formerly attributed to)


Item type:
print
Date of creation:
1790-1800
Height:
31.2 cm  (12 5/16 in.)
Width:
25.6 cm  (10 1/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
engraving

    Item location

  • British Museum
    [Museum inv. no.: 1996,1103.43]

  • Biblioteka Narodowa (Warszawa)
    [Museum inv. no.: G.8345]

Description

Charlotte plays a clavichord or spinet; Werter is seared nearby, while a young girl places a doll on Werter's lap.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Clavichord [2232]

RIdIM images


British Museum copy

Image URLs

image link 2
British Museum
image link 3
Biblioteka Narodowa (Warszawa)

Notes

This scene represents characters in Goethe's novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther [Die Lieden des jungen Werther] (1774).

RIdIM record id

892