Unidentified. Portfolio of portraits, unbound. 47 etchings with manuscript captions in the hand of Lavater interpreting facial expressions

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Title: Unidentified. Portfolio of portraits, unbound. 47 etchings with manuscript captions in the hand of Lavater interpreting facial expressions
Creator: From the Collection: Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801
Published / Created: undated
Description: Mounted on 11 leaves of thick tan paper, most of them folded, with evidence that two others portraits have been torn away. With one sheet of etchings of horses. Several women are depicted, and a few of the portraits are identified as 17th-century personalities, including Ambrogio Spinola, Andreas Rivetus (Andrew Marvell), Jean Gaspard Gevaerts, Abraham Heidanus, and Pieter de Jode
Provenance: The provenance of the collection is uncertain, although it may have been part of the material, called simply "prints," purchased in 1926 from descendants of Lavater, Waldemar C. Hirschfeld (Yale certificate in architecture, 1903) and his brother Robert Lavater Hirschfeld, both then of Meriden, Connecticut.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: German

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

YCGL MSS 13

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Container / Volume

Box 1, folder 16

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Citation: Lavater Collection. Yale Collection of German Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.