(Buchinger, Matthias) | Published in Valentini's Museum museorum

(Buchinger, Matthias)
Engraved portrait of Buchinger, surrounded by thirteen vignettes of him demonstrating his skills, by Lorentz Beger after Elias Beck. [Germany, ca. 1714]

Engraving on paper (252 x 179 mm), signed in plate lower right Lorentz. Beger. sculp. and captioned in ink lower left 123; trimmed close costing engraved plate number at upper right. Inlaid to a larger sheet, which is, in turn, inlaid to a still larger sheet, both with attractive ink-ruled borders.

This copy of Beck's engraving was made by Beger for inclusion in the third volume of Michael Valentini's Museum museorum, oder vollständige Schau-Bühne aller Materialien und Specereyen, nebst deren natürlichen Beschreibung (Frankfurt: heirs of Johann David Zunners and Johann Adam Jungen, 1714).

REFERENCE:
cf. MB, pp. 17–18

Condition Report:
Condition as described in catalogue entry.

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