Large lithographic portrait

by Jab after the painting by Edouard Jean Conrad Hamman 1819-1888 by Johann Sebastian Bach

$300 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

The composer is depicted full-length, his head turned left to look at the viewer, his hands and feet actively engaged in performing at the organ. He wears a long coat, ruffled shirt, britches. and hose. Image size 400 x 275 mm; sheet size 522 x 372 mm. Printed by J. Hesse on wove paper on an off-white ground. Slightly worn and soiled; several marginal repairs. Hamman, a Belgian painter and engraver, specialized in portraying

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