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Summary

Description

Piano, scene 6 (second row, right) of Wilhelm Busch's Der Virtuos, Münchener Bilderbogen, No. 465, Braun & Schneider, Munich. The pianist and his listener, their exaggerated poses, music, furniture and line drawing correspond to HPB-SB-10-13, image item 1.

This is an uncoloured impression photographed in its natural paper colour. The album has applied figure colours; this source does not. It is a matching historical printed witness, not proof that the album clipping came from this museum sheet. The album itself is preserved unchanged.

Source

Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, inventory H4046, Münchener Bilderbogen Nr.465: Der Virtuos. The photographed sheet is marked 18. Auflage. The catalogue dates this impression nach 1871 (after 1871); its separate relationship to an edition dated 1867/1868 must not be substituted for the date of this 18th impression. The exact year and edition of the album clipping remain unresolved.

• Museum object and download page.
• Complete original TIFF, image 3 of H4046, 5379 × 6408 pixels, 103,436,386 bytes; SHA-256 efcf921e63897b882c994677f8c5486a7a38cd22effb88e8a339ac471deeb01f.
• Museum IIIF manifest. Its IIIF image service represents smaller previews; this file is cropped from the actual native downloadable TIFF.

Original photograph credit: © Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg; Foto: Georg Janßen. The complete original, including the modern colour scale and credit margin, is retained unchanged and linked above. Thank you to the Germanisches Nationalmuseum and Georg Janßen for preserving, photographing and making this sheet available.

Rights

The historical graphic by Wilhelm Busch (1832–1908) is in the public domain. This file contains only its faithful flat two-dimensional reproduction. The basis for reuse is the expired historical work and the absence of new authorship in a faithful reproduction, including German UrhG §68 (related rights in reproductions of public-domain visual works), §64 and §69, and US Copyright Office Compendium §313.4(A). This is a specific assessment of this historical graphic and its faithful reproduction, not a statement about all museum photographs or every jurisdiction.

The museum's manifest labels its images CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; that notice and the original photographic credit are retained here. No CC0 grant or institutional approval is claimed, and that licence is not presented as permission to publish adapted protected material. Sections 1.6 and 8(a) of its legal code preserve uses lawfully made independently of the licence. The modern colour scale and credit strip are outside this historical-scene crop; full credit remains above.

The museum's legal notice contains a general copyright/permission notice and expressly states that use of its website creates no contractual relationship. Its photographic-order conditions concern ordered reproductions; no order or separate agreement was made for this publicly offered download. Neither notice is represented as a grant of permission.

File and processing

Lossless RGB PNG, 1337 × 1026 pixels, cropped from the native TIFF at (3189, 1437)–(4526, 2463), right and bottom exclusive. Source checked 5 November 2026. The printed caption is already level; no rotation or resampling was needed. Entire scene and its printed caption retained, adjacent scenes and modern outer photographic margins excluded. Native pixels and original ICC profile retained; independent crop replay checked. No enlargement, sharpening, contrast or colour change, retouching, colourization or reconstruction.