Engraving with etching of Otto of Nordheim, Duke of Bavaria. Half length with plumed helmet, armour, and sash, holding a sword. Within an oval border bearing German inscription, and with an allegorical design of a figure slaying a hydra within a cartouche below.

Otto of Nordheim was the son of Bernard of Nordheim, and was granted the dukedom of Bavaria by Agnes, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire from 1061-1070, but the title was removed when he rebelled against Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.

From a series of 56 portraits of the Dukes of Bavaria, from the early rulers of the sixth century to Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (ruled 1651-79). The portraits were published as plates to Andreas Brunner's Schau-Plaz Bayerischer Helden. Das ist Auführlicher Entwurff aller Bayerischen Herzoge (1681). The portraits were copied after an earlier series, engraved by Wolfgang Kilian, which originally appeared in the 1637 edition of Excvbiae Tvtelares Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi Mariae Francisci Ignatii VVolfgangi, Vtr. Boiar. D. Com. Pal. Rheni, also by Brunner.

For the complete series of prints from Schau-Plaz Bayerischer Helden, see RCIN 608168.a-ay, RCIN 608088, RCIN 608203, RCIN 608211, RCIN 608250, and RCIN 608282. For examples of the Kilian engravings see RCIN 608169.a-h, RCIN 608187, RCIN 608194, RCIN 608212, and RCIN 608255.