"Satire on the taste for Goethe; a woman kneels wailing, hands clasped, over a grave, beneath a wall topped with a skull and cross-bones; in the square behind, a woman hawks sheets with 'The Best Dying Speech of Werter'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Charlotte at the grave of Werther
Description:
British Museum online catalogue suggests 1788 as the year of publication. See registration no.: 1948,0214.592., Last digit of publication date effaced; year of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
S. W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,--1749-1832.--Werther--Parodies, imitations, etc., and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.