Faust embracing Margaret (Gretchen), while Mephistopheles intrigues with her neighbour Martha in a garden. Engraving by F. Ruscheweyh, 1813, after P. Cornelius, 1811.

[Frankfurt am Main?] : [Johann Friedrich Wenner?], [between 1816 and 1818]

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 36.8 x 40.2 cm

P.Cornelius del. 1811. Ferd. Ruscheweyh sc. Romae 1814

Antony Griffiths and Frances Carey, German printmaking in the age of Goethe, London 1994, no. 117

Wellcome Collection 2804684i

"Cornelius's 'Faust' illustrations are perhaps his masterpiece, and rival Delacroix's famous lithographs of 1825-8. The drawings show an astonishing strength in characterisation and dramatic force, and Ruscheweyh's engravings do them full justice."--Griffiths and Carey, loc. cit. The drawings and the engraved plates were both made in Rome