In 1873, the Dryden Press in London privately published an English translation of the poem (which has not been successfully attributed).\u00a0 A number of copies of this edition were illustrated with original pen and ink sketches by artist Julia Pocock (fl. <\/em>1870-1903).\u00a0 Not very much is known of Pocock, nor is there information on any other copies of this poem that she illustrated.<\/p>\n Houghton’s two copies of the work both include 13 drawings by Pocock, and while the drawings illustrate the poem, the two books include quite different drawings.<\/p>\n Included here are portraits of Schiller that appear on the first page in each book, and two very different domestic scenes illustrating the fifth section of the poem.<\/p>\n *GC7.Sch33.Eg873s<\/a> and *GC7.Sch33.Eg873sa<\/a>.\u00a0 Both purchased with the Stanley Marcus Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While we don’t usually acquire multiple copies of the same book, we broke that rule with two recent accessions. Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) published Das Lied von der Glocke (“The Song of the Bell”) in 1798.\u00a0 It remains one of the most well-known German poems, and has been translated into many languages. In 1873, the Dryden […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[64929],"tags":[2848,905,3029,2830,6219,3028,873,1620],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-houghton-library","tag-19th-century","tag-art","tag-drawings","tag-german-lang-lit","tag-great-britain","tag-illustrations","tag-poetry","tag-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TUly-9F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5467,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/5467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2010\/06\/GC7.Sch33.Eg873s.jpg\" "\\"GC7.Sch33.Eg873s\\"")
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