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Title
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Copper Plate of Illustrations Executed by Goethe: Washed Brush Picture of 'Schwanenwalde' (1779) and Pen-and-Ink Sketch of Clouds (10 May 1816)
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Description
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Many artists of the Romantic period were fascinated by clouds and inspired to integrate new scientific findings into their art. These copper plates reproduce two cloud sketches by the German poet, philosopher and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. When he made the first sketch, he still had little scientific knowledge of meteorology. The 1816 sketch shows three types of clouds identified in Luke Howard’s cloud classification, which he had read about during the same year.
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Creator
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Date
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1949
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Identifier
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EGS/2/4/49
A Thousand Words for Weather
