thinks that Fritz blamed his own mistakes on others
Blame mistakes on other people??? (or his flute?) Our Fritz WOULD NEVER! :P
Thank you for the dragon picture! It reminds me of Wilhelmine saying "We all smoked like dragons." :)
Dissertation now in the library!
Having seen your other comments, I agree that there are a plethora of other Keiths around, including a Lt. Col. Sir Robert Keith, son of this guy but without a wiki page of his own, who was ADC to Fritz and who was a lt. col. when he married Suhm's daughter in 1750. So if we don't have a lot of direct evidence that it's Peter, I'm going to reluctantly put a question mark next to the identification. But it might be Peter!
The strongest connection so far seems to be the Tiergarten and the Academy.
and then Peter got the Charlottenburg/Tiergarten responsibility once Knobelsdorff died, or if he got it during Knobelsdorff's lifetime and that is how they became friends.
Interestingly, the earliest mention of Peter in connection with the Tiergarten that I'm aware of is February, 1754. Now, granted, that's an argument from silence, and Lehndorff certainly doesn't consider it his duty to posterity to give us a blow-by-blow of Peter's life, but combined with the fact that Knobelsdorff died in September 1753 and Peter's supposed to have been his successor according to Engel, I'm inclined to think Lehndorff sounds like he's reporting a recent development: "Diner bei der Königin mit Keith, dem der König die Aussicht über den Tiergarten anvertraut hat." (Next sentence: "Es ist ein sehr liebenswürdiger Mann." <3)
For now, I'm going with Peter getting it after Knobelsdorff died, which means, alas, that my fic is slightly more AU than it was yesterday (I went with 1751 instead of late 1753/early 1754). ;)
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Re: Manger, Knobelsdorff - and Peter Keith!
Blame mistakes on other people??? (or his flute?) Our Fritz WOULD NEVER! :P
Thank you for the dragon picture! It reminds me of Wilhelmine saying "We all smoked like dragons." :)
Dissertation now in the library!
Having seen your other comments, I agree that there are a plethora of other Keiths around, including a Lt. Col. Sir Robert Keith, son of this guy but without a wiki page of his own, who was ADC to Fritz and who was a lt. col. when he married Suhm's daughter in 1750. So if we don't have a lot of direct evidence that it's Peter, I'm going to reluctantly put a question mark next to the identification. But it might be Peter!
The strongest connection so far seems to be the Tiergarten and the Academy.
and then Peter got the Charlottenburg/Tiergarten responsibility once Knobelsdorff died, or if he got it during Knobelsdorff's lifetime and that is how they became friends.
Interestingly, the earliest mention of Peter in connection with the Tiergarten that I'm aware of is February, 1754. Now, granted, that's an argument from silence, and Lehndorff certainly doesn't consider it his duty to posterity to give us a blow-by-blow of Peter's life, but combined with the fact that Knobelsdorff died in September 1753 and Peter's supposed to have been his successor according to Engel, I'm inclined to think Lehndorff sounds like he's reporting a recent development: "Diner bei der Königin mit Keith, dem der König die Aussicht über den Tiergarten anvertraut hat." (Next sentence: "Es ist ein sehr liebenswürdiger Mann." <3)
For now, I'm going with Peter getting it after Knobelsdorff died, which means, alas, that my fic is slightly more AU than it was yesterday (I went with 1751 instead of late 1753/early 1754). ;)