1851—Leipzig/New York

An engraving by Johann Georg Heck in the Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art features a man playing trombone on horseback in an army of the “modern age,” 15th and 16th centuries. The encyclopedia is based on Bilder Atlas zum Conversations-Lexikon, published in Leipzig, Germany, 1849-51 (see below image; public domain) (Iconographic Encyclopaedia vol. 2, pl. 17, accessed at biodiversitylibrary.org).

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