| Evidence: | Look here, you had better get hold of G.C. Lichtenberg’s "Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche": Gottingen, 1794 to 1816 (it was published in numbers seemingly. Douglas the publisher lent it to me: and tho’ I hate the damned tongue too cordially to do more than dip into it, I have seen some shrewd things. If you cannot get it for yourself, (it seems scarce), I daresay I could negotiate with Douglas for a loan.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 7 May 1875 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Edinburgh county: Lothian specific address: Swanston Cottage, Lothianburn, Edinburgh |
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| Reader: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 13 Nov 1850 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Aspiring writer and intermittent law student |
| Religion: | Uncommitted |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
| Title: | Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche |
| Genre: | Arts / architecture |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Published Gottingen in parts 1794-99 and subsequently in volume form. |
| Provenance: | borrowed (other) |
| Record ID: | 19598 | |
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| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
| Title: | The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 133 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter 386, To Sidney Colvin, [c. 7 May 1875], Swanston. The date in square brackets has been added by the editors. |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 133, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19598, accessed: 21 March 2023 | |
| Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-99) was a German scientist, satirist and Anglophile. He was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. He is remembered for his notebooks published posthumously and for his discovery of the strange tree-like patterns now called Lichtenberg figures. He also published in 1794-99 an Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche in which he described the satirical details in William Hogarth’s prints. RLS appears to have been reading this work in one of the subsequent editions in volume form. |
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