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[Man smoking a long pipe].
1814-1842
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Omega Project
Project Omega was conceived by the Library's Strategic Council - a scoped three year project aimed to facilitate the effective discovery and presentation of our collections, with a focus on the digitization of the Special Collections Graphic Arts backlog in Firestone library.
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Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
The Graphic Arts Collection holds prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, sculpture, and printed ephemera along with an international book collection specializing in fine press,
Metadata
- Call Number
- E South 09/GC018/Box 06/Normal/19th c./Artists A-K GA 2014.00982
- Publisher
- Nurnberg : [s.n.], n.d.
- People
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- Author
- Geuder, Hans, 1814-1842
- Language
- No linguistic content
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- [Man smoking a long pipe].
- Call Number
- E South 09/GC018/Box 06/Normal/19th c./Artists A-K GA 2014.00982
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dcgx41mw58m
- Publisher
- Nurnberg : [s.n.], n.d.
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1814-1842
- Extent
- 1 item ; sheet 33.0 x 26.1 cm.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
- Signed in plate, lower right: "Geuder del et sc.".
- Inscription below print, first verse: "Um meine Grillen zu verjagen // Greif' nach der Pfeiffe ich geschwind, // Und bas' die Sorgen so mich plagen // Durch Rauchtaback, frisch in den Wind.".
- Inscription below print, second verse: "Ich denke dann in meinen Herzen // (Wenn er zur Hohe steigt hinan,) // Ach! So vergehen Freud u. Schmerzen, // Dampf, ist die ganze Lebensbahn.".
- Inscription below print, first verse in translation: "To chase away my silly thoughts // I quickly reach for the pipe // And blow away the worries that plague me // In tobacco-smoke, fresh in the wind.".
- Inscription below print, second verse, in translation: "I think then, in my heart // (When it climbs up to the heights,) // Oh! Happiness and pain go away together, // Smoke is every part of life.".
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 2
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Omega Project
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/68629214-608e-4eab-9a2e-5b9476710130/manifest