Galleries Introduction
The galleries complement the letters visually through illustrations and photos of people, places, and other subjects of interest to Caroline’s life and correspondence. Readers are urged to consult especially the first gallery below, Caroline’s Life by Year, while reading through the letters.
Galleries can be accessed either through the links below or in the drop-down menu under Galleries.
(1) General guidelines for navigating the galleries.
- All galleries open up in a full window or tab.
- Clicking on Fullscreen at the bottom right will open the gallery to full screen.
- Pressing the Esc key or clicking again on Fullscreen will reduce the gallery back to full window or tab.
- Clicking the normal browser Back button will return you to the previous screen.
- Once inside a gallery, left and right arrows will appear at either side of an image when the cursor is either inside the image or moved to the right or left inside the image. Clicking on those arrows will bring up the next or previous image in the gallery.
(2) Accessing the textual information for each image.
- Clicking on either “Image Info” at the top right or the floating “i” (“info”) that drops down at the top left will display textual information about each image. Click again on the same button to hide that information.
(3) Accessing different years or periods in Caroline’s life.
- In the gallery “Caroline’s Life by Year,” clicking on the All Galleries button at the bottom left reveals a pop-up menu to choose a different period of her life.
(4) Accessing thumbnail images in a gallery.
- In the gallery “Caroline’s Life by Year,” simply clicking on a thumbnail image at the bottom of the screen will call up that image (arrows at either end of the thumbnail series will reveal additional thumbnails in the gallery if necessary).
- In all other galleries, resting the cursor anywhere on the bottom ribbon will reveal floating thumbnails of all the images in the gallery. Clicking on any image will show that image in the main screen.
(5) Using the Slideshow.
- Clicking on Slideshow will start the slideshow for each gallery. Clicking on Image Info or “i” for image information will pause the slide show; clicking once more on Slideshow will continue the slideshow.
The Galleries
A series of chronological galleries by year or period.
(2) Portraits of Caroline and Auguste
Renderings of portraits and silhouettes of Caroline, Auguste, and members of Caroline’s immediate family. Johann Friedrich August Tischbein’s portraits of Caroline and Auguste were rendered quite differently especially in the first edition of her letters and elsewhere.
(3) Auguste’s Bust by Friedrich Tieck
Photographs of what is apparently the only surviving original of the bust Friedrich Tieck did of Auguste Böhmer on commission from Caroline and Wilhelm Schlegel in 1804. It does, however, seem to have been the bust Caroline herself had in her apartments in Würzburg and Munich.
Various parts of the memorial planned for Auguste as rendered by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. A history of these pieces will be provided later in the project, though some preliminary information is provided with these images themselves.
(5) Reproduction of Auguste’s Bust
A photographic account of the reproduction of Friedrich Tieck’s 1804 bust of Auguste Böhmer undertaken by the Thorvaldsen Museum in 2011 at the initiative of the translator.
