Stipple-engraved bust-length portrait of the composer

by Arcangelo Corelli

$160 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

The subject is depicted within an oval border, facing front turned quarter right, wearing a jacket over a tabbed shirt. With printed identification, birth and death dates, and imprint below image. Size to platemark ca. 107 x 165; sheet size 281 x 178. On wove paper. Very slightly worn, foxed, and soiled. British Museum no. 1904, 1019.27 variant . Despite the modest size of his output, comprising six collections of instrumental

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