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  • Language: English X
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  • Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library X
  • Names: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928 X
  • Subject: Artists -- Germany X

William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : original artwork

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Call Number: YCGL MSS 26
Overview: The William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana: Original Artwork is an artificial collection comprising original artwork that came to Yale from various sources, mostly during the Speck Collection's early decades. It includes some of the Collection's best-known holdings, including an anonymous silhouette made of Goethe in 1786 as well as original sketches and engravings by Goethe. Other artists represented include Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Georg Melchior Kraus, Johann Heinrich Lips, and Moritz Retzsch.
Dates: 1785-1916
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library