Record ID:
355026
Accession number:
MA 700.24
Published:
[Vienna, 1827]
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description:
1 wood fragment.
Notes:
Located on the recto of leaf 50.
Title and attribution are from a note by Mrs. G.A. Waetzig, compiler of the album.
Part of an album of autographs, letters, pictures, and ephemera collected by Mrs. G.A. Waetzig, a servant of Queen Victoria. Select items in the album are described in individual records. See MA 700 for more information.
Summary:
A small piece of wood, allegedly from the floor of the room in which Ludwig van Beethoven died in 1827.
Medium:
wood.
Dimensions:
1.1 x 4.5 cm
Provenance:
Mrs. G.A. Waetzig; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1910.
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