PrintsGerman18th-19th century

Solitude

1809

Artists

Carl Wilhelm KolbeArtist

Salomon GessnerArtist after

Classification

Prints

Technique

Etching

Culture

German

Century

18th-19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Prints

Provenance

John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister. Belinda Lull Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892. sister of John Witt Randall

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