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Harnisch, Carl: Bildliche Darstellungen in Arabeskenform zu Ossians Gedichten. [Berlin], 1835. Six drawings illustrating scenes from Cath–Loda, Comala, Lathmon, Fingal (2), and Temora. Cf. Nagler, Künstler–Lexicon, Vol. 5, pp. 564–5.
Krafft, Peter: Ossian. A painting representing the blind bard led by Malvina, “am brandenden Meeresufer sein Schwanenlied in die Saiten brausend.” Cf. Nagler, Künstler–Lexicon, Vol. 7, p. 153. An etching from this painting was made by Ignaz Rungaldier. A cut appeared in Aglaja. Taschenbuch für das Jahr 1824. Wien.
Rehberg, Friedrich: Ossian und Malvina. A drawing “recently exhibited at Berlin” (Gurlitt, 1804).
Ruhl, Johann Christian: Ossian’s Gedichte in Umrissen. Erfunden und radirt von J. C. Ruhl. Bildhauer in Cassel. 1. Heft. St. Petersburg, Penig und Leipzig, 1805. 2. Heft. St. Petersburg und Penig, 1806. 3. und letztes Heft. St. Petersburg, Penig und Leipzig, 1807. Cf. Nagler, Künstler–Lexicon, Vol. 14, pp. 30–3. Advance Notice: Intelligenzblatt der Jenaischen Allg. Lit.–Zeitung, 1805, i, p. 68. Reviews: Journal des Luxus und der Moden, 1805 (April), pp. 210–1; 1806 (October), pp. 640–2; 1808, pp. 188–90. Allg. Lit.–Zeitung, 1806, ii, pp. 371–4; 1807, iii, pp. 558–9; 1808, iv, pp. 750–2. Bibl. der redenden und bildenden Künste. Leipzig. Vol. 2, ii, pp. 388–94 (1806). Der Neue Teutsche Merkur, 1807, i, pp. 200–6 (by Justi, cf supra, p. 47); 1807, iii, pp. 239–42 (by Justi). An advance description of the entire collection appeared in Justi’s Hessische Denkwürdigkeiten, Marburg, 1805, Vol. 4, i, pp. 463–8.
Runge, Philipp Otto: Eight very large pictures in illustration of Cath–Loda, two to illustrate the Death of Comhal and the Birth of Fingal (son of Comhal), and three pen–sketches (in outline) of Fingal, Oscar, and Ossian. Cp. supra, p. 47.
Weitsch, Friedrich Georg (Matthias): Comala. A large heroic painting, representing bards singing the praise of Comala by torchlight. Exhibited at the Berlinische Kunstausstellung of 1802. For A. W. v. Schlegel’s criticism, cf. supra, p. 44. No. 2, Vol. 1, of the Tablettes d’un Amateur des Arts, Berlin, contains La Mort de Comala, a sketch after the painting by Weitsch, together with a description of the painting and the argument of the episode in Ossian.
Tod der Borminna, nach Ossian’s Dichtung. A pendant to the above. Cf. Allg. Deutsche Biog., Vol. 41, pp. 629–30; Nagler, Künstler–Lexicon, Vol. 21, pp. 268–70.
Taschenbuch für Damen auf das Jahr 1802. Herausgegeben von Huber, Lafontaine, Pfeffel, und andern. Mit Kupfern. Tübingen. 1. Kupfer: Malvina, in the midst of her companions, lamenting the death of Oscar. Cf. Croma. Notice: Neue allg. deutsche Bibl., Vol. 73, ii, p. 522 (1802). 3. Kupfer: Colma’s discovery of the bodies of her lover and her brother on the beach. Cf. the song of the unfortunate Colma, The Songs of Selma, p. 209, ll. 26 ff.
Among the Commissions–Artikel of the Landes–Industrie–Comptoir at Weimar cited in the Intelligenz–Blatt des Neuen Teutschen Merkurs for April, 1805 (p. 67), mention is made of an engraving illustrating Ossian’s Dichtungen. “Ein grosses, reich komponirtes Blatt, gemalt von F[rançois] Gerard, gestochen von J[ean] Godefroy in Paris.” Godefroy’s engraving was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1804. A criticism of the engraving, by Goethe, had appeared in the Jenaische Allg. Lit.–Zeitung, January, 1805, on pp. vii–viii of the supplement: Weimarische Kunstausstellung vom Jahre 1804....
[For a notice of the scheme said to have been broached in Kingussie for an exhibition of paintings illustrating the poems of Ossian, cf. Saunders, op. cit., pp. 236–7.]
[For a notice of a painting of Lamderg and Gelchossa (cf. Fingal, Bk. v, pp. 257–8) in the Art Gallery of Yale University (by Col. John Trumbull), cf. Donald G. Mitchell, English Lands, Letters and Kings, 1895, Vol. 3, p. 221.]