Portrait stipple engraving

by Carl Traugott Riedel 1769-1832 by Johann Gottfried Schicht

$100 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

182 x 114 mm. plus wide margins. On wove paper with watermark M & I. A. Huber. The subject is depicted head and shoulders, facing slightly left, and looking directly at the viewer. Schicht was a German conductor, keyboard player and composer. He was brought up by his uncle at Zittau, where he was first taught to play keyboard instruments by the organist Johann Trier. From 1776, when he went to Leipzig University to study law, he played in the

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