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LICHTENBERG, Georg Christoph (1742-1799). Autograph letter signed ('G. Lichtenberg') to Dan Chodowiecki, Göttingen, 25 October 1779, two pages, 4to, integral adress leaf, remnant of seal (seal tears, minor traces of mount).
SUGGESTIONS FOR A SUITE OF SATIRICAL PRINTS. Lichtenberg writes with a suggested theme for calendar for 1781, which he would like Chodowiecki to engrave -- or at least draw. His proposed theme is this: 'Zwölf Arten seine Liebe anzutragen oder um ein Hertz oder eine Hand oder einen Geld Beutel anzu halten' [Twelve means of offering one's love, or to stop a heart or a hand or a wallet], suggesting ways in which the theme can be arranged, using the bystanders to add colour: 'Denn Bauer ... die geistlichen Pedanten vom Schulmeister bis zum General Superintendant, und die Weltlichen aus allen Facultäten der Professoren'. Lichtenberg hesitates to enlarge on the theme too extensively, 'der Ihnen ihre außerordentlicher Beobachtungs Geist in einem Augenblick mehr Bilde an die Hand geben wird, als mir alle meine Tagebücher' [for your extraordinary powers of observation will suggest more images to your hand in a second, than all my journals].
Lichtenberg's journals, for which he used the English bookkeeping term 'waste books' where to become his most famous productions after their posthumous publication.
SUGGESTIONS FOR A SUITE OF SATIRICAL PRINTS. Lichtenberg writes with a suggested theme for calendar for 1781, which he would like Chodowiecki to engrave -- or at least draw. His proposed theme is this: 'Zwölf Arten seine Liebe anzutragen oder um ein Hertz oder eine Hand oder einen Geld Beutel anzu halten' [Twelve means of offering one's love, or to stop a heart or a hand or a wallet], suggesting ways in which the theme can be arranged, using the bystanders to add colour: 'Denn Bauer ... die geistlichen Pedanten vom Schulmeister bis zum General Superintendant, und die Weltlichen aus allen Facultäten der Professoren'. Lichtenberg hesitates to enlarge on the theme too extensively, 'der Ihnen ihre außerordentlicher Beobachtungs Geist in einem Augenblick mehr Bilde an die Hand geben wird, als mir alle meine Tagebücher' [for your extraordinary powers of observation will suggest more images to your hand in a second, than all my journals].
Lichtenberg's journals, for which he used the English bookkeeping term 'waste books' where to become his most famous productions after their posthumous publication.
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