Portrait engraving

by John Swaine 1775-1860 after Giovanni Battista Cipriani 1727-1785 by George Frideric Handel

$100 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Sheet size 170 x ca. 107 mm. The composer is depicted full length, seated, a partial view of an organ to his right; a quill pen in his left hand is poised above a sheet of music manuscript paper with another bifolium at lower left; a putto above his head holds a banner lettered Handel, a winged figure places a laurel wreath on his head. On wove paper.Somewhat worn and browned; trimmed to within platemark at upper and right margin; right margin with small stitching holes,

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