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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Letter signed (‘J.W. v. Goethe’) to an unidentified prince [Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach], Weimar, 18 October 1826, courteously submitting a request that the recipient should allow the artist [Johann Joseph] Schmeller, the bearer of the letter, to draw his portrait, one page, 4to, laid onto an album leaf. Provenance: from the autograph collection of Sir Francis Clare Ford (1828-1899).
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Letter signed (‘J.W. v. Goethe’) to an unidentified prince [Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach], Weimar, 18 October 1826, courteously submitting a request that the recipient should allow the artist [Johann Joseph] Schmeller, the bearer of the letter, to draw his portrait, one page, 4to, laid onto an album leaf. Provenance: from the autograph collection of Sir Francis Clare Ford (1828-1899).

细节
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Letter signed (‘J.W. v. Goethe’) to an unidentified prince [Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach], Weimar, 18 October 1826, courteously submitting a request that the recipient should allow the artist [Johann Joseph] Schmeller, the bearer of the letter, to draw his portrait, one page, 4to, laid onto an album leaf. Provenance: from the autograph collection of Sir Francis Clare Ford (1828-1899).

‘gedachte nach Höchst Ihro Rückkunft eine bescheidene Bitte mündlich vorzutragen, welche schriftlich zu thun ich mich gegenwärtig in Hoffnung gnädigster Genehmigung entschließe. Es ist nämlich die: Höchst-dieselben mögen Ueberbringern dieses, dem geschickten Künstler Schmeller, erlauben Ihr Bildniß zu zeichnen, damit es, auch in persönliches Abwesenheit, uns durch seine Gegenwart erfreue’.

Published from a draft, with minor variants, in the Weimarer Ausgabe, IV. Abteilung, Bd. 42, no. 41/173. Goethe’s letters at this period are full of requests to members of his circle to allow Schmeller to take their portraits.