Two men making music

Oeser, Adam Friedrich (1717-1799)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

ca. 1756

Height:

12.4 cm  (4 7/8 in.)

Width:

8.4 cm  (3 5/16 in.)

Dimensions listed are for the plate. Sheet dimensions are 4 15/16 x 3 3/8 inches (12.5 x 8.6 cm).

Technique / Medium:

etching

Place of creation:

Leipzig

Description

One man is playing a long-necked guitar and reads music on the table that the other man points to.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237] (Guitar-shaped body with long neck and bent-back pegbox suggesting a lute-guitar hybrid)

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

Plate from Le Sage, Histoire de Gil Blas (Dresden and Leipzig: George Conrad Walther, 1756)

RIdIM record id

3708