[Lessing, Lavater u. Mendelssohn im Hause Mendelssohn zu Berlin]

Title:

[Lessing, Lavater u. Mendelssohn im Hause Mendelssohn zu Berlin]

Date:

1857

Creator (Personal):

Oppenheim

Description:

Black-and-white lithograph depicting an imagined meeting among philosophers Moses Mendelsohn, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and theologian Johann Kaspar Lavater in Mendelssohn's Berlin home. Mendelssohn is depicted on the left, seated at a chess table in his library with Lavater. Lessing stands at the center behind the two. Lithograph by S. Maier after a painting by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim. Printed Paris: Imprimerie Lemercier. Published Carlsruhe and St. Petersburg: Verlag von J. Velten.

Collection Title:

William A. Rosenthall Judaica Collection - Prints and Photographs

Contributing Institution:

College of Charleston Libraries

Media Type:

Images

Personal or Corporate Subject:

Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781
Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801

Topical Subject:

Jewish philosophers

Geographic Subject:

Berlin (Germany)

Shelving Locator:

Print Portfolio 11,cofc-war-print11-007

Date Digital:

2011-11-22

Digitization Specifications:

Scanned with Epson Expression 10000 XL, 250 ppi, 24-bit color. Archival tiff image available.

Internet Media Type:

image/jpeg

Copyright Status Statement:

Copyright status undetermined.

Access Information:

For more information contact Special Collections at the College of Charleston Libraries, Charleston, SC 29424.

Admin ID:

36131