[GOETHE.] Sorrows of Werter. To day I was sitting by Charlotte; she was playing on her harpsichord with an expression it is impossible for me to discribe [sic] to you … London Pubd April, 21, 1785 by Ias Birchall No. 473 Strand. 
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[With:] Sorrows of Werter. They had passed an hour in this irksome situation, when the arrival of Werter’s servant completed Charlotte’s distress … London Pubd April, 21, 1785 by Ias Birchall No. 473 Strand. 2 etchings with stipple (255 × 203 mm, trimmed to platemark) by Bartolozzi after Ramberg, printed in sanguine; some spotting.
With the publication of Götz von Berlichingen (1773) and Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1774), ‘in one brief year Goethe made the transition from promising young poet, to standard-bearer of a new literary movement, to rising international literary star’ (Bareikis 92). Goethe’s influential novel first appeared in English, via a French translation, in 1779, and soon grabbed the attention of the British public. It is fitting these two prints are after work by Johann Heinrich Ramberg (1763–1840), a young German artist who had come to England in 1781, where he was immediately ‘introduced to George III, for whom he made many humorous sketches and caricatures. He is said to have been a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Francesco Bartolozzi, and in November 1781 he entered the Royal Academy Schools, where he studied with Benjamin West under the special protection of George III’ (Oxford DNB). Calabi & De Vesme 1416–7; Carré, Goethe en Angleterre, pp. 22–3; see also Speck 1348 for another version (‘Henry Better scult’) of the second print.
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