print;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1944,1014.573
- Description
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Frontispiece to Gottfried Finger, 'Sonatae XII Pro diversis Instrumentis' (London, 1688); within a large oval, an interior, a cloud in the upper half; in the centre of the interior, a bust of Finger on a plinth, in the process of receiving a wreath from a figure wearing a plumed helmet and a crown from a veiled female, with the inscriptions 'Arte et Marte' and 'Deo volente, et viminibus naviges'; alongside the bust, a winged female with two trumpets and the inscription 'Ad Astra usque'; at the foot of the bust a kneeling male figure with a sheet inscribed 'Puris non plenas aspice manus' below musical notes, and accompanied by a female figure with plumed helmet and spear; outside the oval in the four corners, various musical instruments and objects associated with learning and the arts; title in cartouche at bottom.
Engraving
- Production date
- 1688
- Dimensions
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Height: 211 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 152 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Sonatae XII pro diversis instrumentis
- Acquisition date
- 1944
- Acquisition notes
- One of a large number of portraits of musicians purchased from the Royal College of Music. See Hind's report to the Trustees dated 7 October 1944. The College only kept the prints that were framed and displayed. Unable to store the remainder, they gave the BM first choice of all prints lacking in its collection, and sold the rest to Suckling's. The purchase was funded from a block grant made to the BM by the NACF, and the cost was £50 in all.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1944,1014.573