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Effigies IOHANNIS ALBERTI Ducis Magapolitani c.1638
Engraving | 28.4 x 19.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 608800

Matthäus Merian I (1593-1650)
Effigies IOHANNIS ALBERTI Ducis Magapolitani c.1638
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Engraving of John Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. Whole length with short hair, beard, lace collar, embroidered doublet, and sash. The Duke is pictured standing with right hand on hip and left resting on a table beside gloves and a plumed hat, and with a hound to the left and drapery behind. With title on a scrolled banner above and with Latin inscription on cartouche below. For an accompanying portrait of his consort Elisabeth of Hesse-Kassel, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, see RCIN 608801.
This print was published as a plate in Monumentum sepulcrale, ad Illustrissimi Celsissimique Principis ac Domini, Dn. Mauritii Hassiae Landgravii ... memoriam Gloriae Sempiternam Erectum (1638). -
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28.4 x 19.1 cm (sheet of paper)
26.6 x 17.5 cm (platemark)
26.3 x 17.0 cm (image)
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