Portrait etching. 1711

by Gregorio Allegri

$250 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Image size to platemark 122 x 83; sheet size 131 x 93 mm. Long bust-length image of the composer holding a sheet of music of his noted Miserere with his left hand within a rectangular border with three lines of biographical text to cartouche below and Fortunato Santini Rom. fece incidere under image.Very slightly worn, foxed, and stained; verso with dates in ink to lower margin and minor remnant of mounting tape to upper margin. British

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