Johann Caspar Lavater: allegorical mourners at his tomb. Etching by J.H. Lips, ca. 1801.

  • Lips, Johann Heinrich, 1758-1817.
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1801
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2200315i
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Johann Caspar Lavater: allegorical mourners at his tomb. Etching by J.H. Lips, ca. 1801. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Above, two angels in the light of the setting sun acclaim a circle of stars which is suspended over Lavater's tomb. On the front of the tomb is a portrait of Lavater in a circular frame bordered with laurel. Below, the worm Ouroboros with a butterfly and a shell (?). Left, a woman and two children mourning; right, an angel with a down-turned torch

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1801

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1 print : etching, with line engraving ; platemark 37.8 x 26.5 cm

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I.C. Lavater. geb. 15 Nov. 1741. gest. 2 Ian. 1801. H. Lips del. et sculp.

References note

Joachim Kruse, Johann Heinrich Lips, 1758-1817, ein Zürcher Kupferstecher zwischen Lavater und Goethe, [Coburg] : Die Kunstsammlungen, [1989], no. 247

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Wellcome Collection 2200315i

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