(Buchinger, Matthias) | Long proficient on the dulcimer, Buchinger takes up the trumpet and oboe

(Buchinger, Matthias)

Engraved portrait of Buchinger, surrounded by thirteen vignettes of him demonstrating his skills, after Elias Beck. [England, early eighteenth century]

Engraving on paper (298 x 185 mm), signed in plate lower right Elias Beck ali: Heldenmuth sculpsit, but likely an English re-engraving; trimmed close, repaired horizontal separation at foot of print, rebacked, matted. 

This is yet another English adaptation of Elias Beck's original Regensburg engraving of 1710. In the present version, two of Buchinger's demonstrations of skill differ from those of the preceding two lots: he is shown here playing the trumpet and the hautboy (a predecessor of the oboe) rather than shaving himself and grinding corn to flour.

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