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Portrait of Johannes Wynistorff
Not on view
Created by Thomas Bäeck, this etching follows the same pattern used in the 1710 portrait of Buchinger with thirteen vignettes by Elias Baeck—to whom Thomas may have been related—in order to display the skills of Johannes Wynistorff, born without hands. Thomas Bäeck includes sixteen vignettes that show Wynistorff performing feats with his feet, such as threading a needle, shooting a gun, shuffling and playing cards, cutting a quill and writing, paying a compliment with the tip of his hat, cutting with scissors, and playing a triangle. It is a remarkable homage to Buchinger that a later performer such as Wynistorff would ape not only his abilities but also the presentation of those abilities in an advertisement or souvenir print.
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