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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). A Roman Villa with a view on the Campagna, n.d. [?1786-88], pen and ink and wash on paper with 'G.B.' watermark, 196 x 282mm, green wash border. Provenance: autograph inscription signed by Ottilie von Goethe on lower margin: 'Handzeichnung meines Schwiegervaters Herrn Dr Hase zur Erinnerung an Ottilie von Goethe' [drawing by my father-in-law [a gift] to Dr Hase as a keepsake from Ottilie von Goethe]; an inscription on the verso by Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer authenticates the hand of Ottilie von Goethe; document of authentification by Dr Kurt E. Simon, Berlin, 27 November 1946.
Not in G. Femmel, Corpus der Goethezeichnungen (1958). The view may be an idealised one, but the image of a villa on an eminence with distant hills appears in a number of the sketches from the Italian tour (see especially Femmel, Op. Cit., II, nos 53, 54, 249).
Not in G. Femmel, Corpus der Goethezeichnungen (1958). The view may be an idealised one, but the image of a villa on an eminence with distant hills appears in a number of the sketches from the Italian tour (see especially Femmel, Op. Cit., II, nos 53, 54, 249).
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