Friedrich Auguste Böhme, R.S. Musikdirektor und Posannen Konig zu Dresden. Original drawing executed in pencil, black chalk, and colored washes

300 x 204 mm. Signed "O.v. Alv." and dated 18 April [18]76. On light blue paper with watermark 'G.G."

The subject is depicted three-quarter length in military dress, holding a top hat in his left hand and a cigar in his right. His first finger points up towards a small drawing of a musical staff with a trombone and several musical notes. Alvensleben was a German artist working in Dresden where he studied at the Kunstakademie. The Wiener Zeitung reported that Böhme performed three concert pieces on the trombone at the Carl-Theater there on 3 August 1860.