Fine portrait bust in bronze executed

by Elkington Mason & Co. of Birmingham, England, after the marble bust of 1848 by Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel 1804-1861 by Felix Mendelssohn

$350 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Height 225 mm. On a round base. The original marble bust is held by the Getty Museum in California. Elkington & Co. were a firm specialising in electroplating and bronze founding established in Birmingham by George Richards Elkington 1801-1865 in association with his cousin Henry Elkington c.1810–1852 . In 1840 Elkington patented an electroplating process as a cheaper substitute for solid silver, which revolutionized the silver

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