Handel composing sacred Music; the Genius of Harmony crowning him, & a Seraph wafting his name to heaven.
I.B. Cipriani R.A. Inven.t F. Bartolozzi R.A. Engraver to her Majesty Sculp.t
Pub.d as the Act directs April 1.st 1784.
Stipple. 280 x 211mm (11 x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate on three sides
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) seated writing a music score on a table, looking up at a cherub holding a banner with his name; to his right Fame puts a crown of laurels over his head. A pipe organ to the left. An llustration to 'An Account of the Musical Performances in Commemoration of Handel'. The Commemoration of Handel took place in Westminster Abbey in 1784, to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death for George Frideric Handel in 1759. The commemoration was organised by John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich and it took the form of a series of concerts of Handel's music, given in the Abbey by vast numbers of singers and instrumentalists.
V & A: S.4247-2009.
[Ref: 18652] £160.00
Pub.d as the Act directs April 1.st 1784.
Stipple. 280 x 211mm (11 x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate on three sides
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) seated writing a music score on a table, looking up at a cherub holding a banner with his name; to his right Fame puts a crown of laurels over his head. A pipe organ to the left. An llustration to 'An Account of the Musical Performances in Commemoration of Handel'. The Commemoration of Handel took place in Westminster Abbey in 1784, to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death for George Frideric Handel in 1759. The commemoration was organised by John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich and it took the form of a series of concerts of Handel's music, given in the Abbey by vast numbers of singers and instrumentalists.
V & A: S.4247-2009.
[Ref: 18652] £160.00