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Piece of wood from the floor of the room in which Beethoven died at Vienna [realia].

BIB_ID
355026
Accession number
MA 700.24
Published
[Vienna, 1827]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 wood fragment.
Notes
Located on the recto of leaf 50.
Part of an album of autographs, letters, pictures, and ephemera collected by Mrs. G.A. Waetzig, a servant of Queen Victoria. Select items in the album are described in individual records. See MA 700 for more information.
Title and attribution are from a note by Mrs. G.A. Waetzig, compiler of the album.
1.1 x 4.5 cm
Provenance
Mrs. G.A. Waetzig; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1910.
Summary
A small piece of wood, allegedly from the floor of the room in which Ludwig van Beethoven died in 1827.
Medium
wood.
Classification