Author
Gustav Friedrich Waagen is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1845–1847). One work is named, most often in Books of Travel., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
“Dr. Waagen’s book on England has been translated into English, but we think not many copies have found their way across the water. The book is called “Works of Art and Artists in England.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Dr. Waagen’s book on England has been translated into English, but we think not many copies have found their way across the water. The book is called “Works of Art and Artists in England.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Books of Travel." New-York Daily Tribune, 18 December 1845. · 18 December 1845
“Sir John Soane’s Museum I saw containing the sarcophagus described by Du Waagen”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . IX." New-York Daily Tribune, 19 February 1847. · 19 February 1847
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“She read Condivi, Vasari, Benvenuto Cellini, Duppa, Fuseli, and Von Waagen — great and small.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Inferred Margaret Fuller engaged with Gustav Friedrich Waagen's scholarship on art, specifically his "Works of Art and Artists in England," as noted by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This German art historian's catalog of British collections and artistic contributions likely supplemented Fuller's own extensive inquiries into the visual arts, joining the company of other critical biographies and art histories she consulted.