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

Record ID: 
355026
Accession number: 
MA 700.24
Published: 
[Vienna, 1827]
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description: 
1 wood fragment.
Notes: 

Located on the recto of leaf 50.
Title and attribution are from a note by Mrs. G.A. Waetzig, compiler of the album.
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.

Summary: 

A small piece of wood, allegedly from the floor of the room in which Ludwig van Beethoven died in 1827.

Medium: 
wood.
Dimensions: 
1.1 x 4.5 cm
Provenance: 
Mrs. G.A. Waetzig; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1910.
Classification: