(Buchinger, Matthias) | "This is For my Friend Mr. Joshua Clark"

(Buchinger, Matthias)

Autograph calligraphic inscription signed by Buchinger ("Mathew Buchinger") at the foot of an engraved portrait of him

Engraving on paper (298 x 172 mm, irregular), a central portrait of Buchinger surrounded by thirteen English-captioned vignettes of Buchinger demonstrating his various skills, London?, early eighteenth century (signed in plate lower right Elias Beck ali: Heldenmuth sculpsit, but likely an English re-engraving), inscribed by Buchinger (variously demonstrating frontward, backward, upside-down, and mirror writing) in the lower margin, ca. 1718; severely defective at right margin with significant loss, place and date of inscription abraded, last name of recipient somewhat abraded, rebacked and tipped to a larger sheet.

Buchinger has here added a personal dedication to his usual calligraphic exemplar, "This is For my Friend Mr. Joshua Clark."