Fine portrait stipple etching and engraving

by Pierre Condé after the drawing by Richard Cosway by Jan Ladislav Dussek

$300 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

The composer is depicted within a decorative oval frame, half-length facing forward with head turned left. He wears a double-breasted coat, waistcoat, a bow at his neck. The frame rests on a plaque with lyre, trumpet, and laurel wreaths.217 x 158 mm. On laid paper.Trimmed with loss of Latin verse and imprint below plaque. British Museum number 1944,1014.499 At the time of the French Revolution Dussek fled to

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