Three-quarter length portrait slightly caricatured, of 'Cervetto', or Giacomo Bassevi the 'cellist (1680-1783), noted for his large nose, playing the 'cello.
<p><br>He sits looking downwards and to the right.  An open book of music, from which he is not reading, is on a stand behind his left. arm.  1 January 1774
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