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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