Catalogue n°138, Grosvenor Prints
Grosvenor Prints is pleased to present our summer selection: Catalogue 138! Cover: [George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Giuseppe Tartini, Johann Joachim Quantz, Christoph Gluck and Niccolò Jommelli.] [n.d., c.1780.] Extremely fine & rare mezzotint. Sheet 240 x 245mm (9½ x 9¾”). Framed loosely. Trimmed into image, losing all inscriptions, laid on card. A satirical portrait, with Tartini playing the violin, Quanz the flute and Gluck plating the harpsicord. The others sing. The figures are identified from a German engraved version of the scene in the Gerald Coke Handel Collection, Foundling Museum, Accession no 5559. [Ref: 62576] £1,350.00 S.t James’s...