Object details
Object number
ARC.008163
Creator(s)
Friedrich Schiller
(Marbach am Neckar, Germany, 1759 - 1805, Weimar, Germany)
Title
Letter to Georg Joachim Göschen from Weimar
Date
2 April 1789
Medium
Ink on paper
Language
German
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed in pencil (recto, lower right corner): [wh] freydag zeibligeich
Inscribed in pencil (verso, upper left corner): A17
Inscribed in pencil (verso, lower left corner): 120
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Theodore F. Dwight (1846-1917), librarian and autograph collector, with Ludwig van Beethoven's Letter for $49 on 26 August 1893.
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Fritz Jonas (ed.). Schillers Briefe. Vol. 2. (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1892-1896), pp. 271.
Walter Hettche. "A Friedrich Schiller Letter to his Publisher: A Glimpse of the Poet in Business." Fenway Court (1981), pp. 34-37.
Gallery
Long Gallery
Case
Earlier Authors Case
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