JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
£55.00
Original 1838-1840 8 1/2 inch x 7 inch engraving titled JOHN SEBASTIAN BACH.
Portrait of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach; half-length, directed and looking to right, holding a music manuscript in hie left hand, wearing shoulder-length curly wig, dark open jacket and waistcoat, pleated shirt; surrounded by buildings of Leipzig, figures walking towards his monument below.
Print by Albert Henry Payne (1812 – 1902). Painter, etcher and publisher; born in London, worked in Leipzig from 1838. In 1845 Henry Albert Payne became a citizen of Leipzig, where he founded the publishing company “Englische Kunstanstalt”.
After H. Bibby.
Published by John Tallis & Company, London & New York.
Lettering under title: ‘With Views of / The St. Thomas’s School, Bach’s Monument, St. Thomas’s Church, & Observatory at Leipzig.’
Image size 6 inch x 4 3/8 inch
The engraving is in good condition with slight age related toning. Reverse side blank.
Availability: 1 in stock
