拍品 164
  • 164

BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN. FINE CHARACTERISTIC AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("BEETHOVEN"), TO HIS FRIEND NIKOLAUS VON ZMESKALL

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  • Fine characteristic autograph letter signed (“Beethoven”), to his friend Nikolaus von Zmeskall, dated by the recipient “28 October 1810”
enquiring about a recipe for boot-blacking, making a joke of the request and insisting that Zmeskall’s servant does not bring it as he cannot abide him …Ich bitte um das Stiefelwiksrezept, ein gewikster Kopf bedarf auch einen gewichsten Stiefel—Die sache wird wohl ohne ihren Bedienten thunlich seyn… 1 page, 4to, 22x19.5cm, with integral autograph address-panel, before 28 October 1810 creased where folded before 28 October 1810