WorkGustav Friedrich Waagen
Works of Art and Artists in England' (1838)] Inferred
Gustav Friedrich Waagen (1794–1868) · 1838
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Documented 1845
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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“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
“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.