Adam BARTSCH: Self-portrait at the age of twenty-eight, in bust, front - 1785
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Engraving, etching and tools, 168 x 126 mm. Friedrich von Bartsch 23, Rieger 14, 6th state (of 6).
Impression of the 6th state (of 6), with the engraved background.
Fine impression printed on wove paper. Some very light foxing in the margins. Good margins (sheet: 222 x 167 mm).
Rare.
In 1785, at the age of twenty-eight, Adam Bartsch was not yet the author of the famous Peintre-graveur, which he published between 1803 and 1821. He was working at the Royal Court Library in Vienna, which he had joined after studying printmaking.