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FRIDERIC STRENU Landgr: in Thuring und Mgr. zu Meissen 1718
Engraving | 15.5 x 8.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 609027.m
Master: [Engravings of the rulers of Saxony, Meissen, and Thuringia] Item: FRIDERIC STRENU Landgr: in Thuring und Mgr. zu Meissen 1718
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Engraving of Friedrich III the Strict, Margrave of Meissen and Landgrave of Thuringia. Half length with beard, plumed helmet, armour, and chainmail, holding a sword in right hand. Within an oval border with German inscription on entablature below. Cut down.
This print is from a series of 58 portraits of the rulers of Saxony, Meissen, and Thuringia dating from 70 BC to the early eighteenth century, all taken from Sigmund von Birken and Joachim Friedrich Feller's Königlich-Polnischer, Chur- und Fürstlich-Sächsischer Helden-Saal; Oder Kurtze, jedoch hinlängliche Beschreibung der Ankunfft, Aufnahme, Fortpflantzung und vornehmsten Geschichten Dieses Durchlauchtigsten Hauses (1718).
For the other portraits from this series see RCINs 609003.a-n, RCIN 609010, RCINs 609027.a-u, RCIN 609027.x-aa, RCIN 609078, RCIN 609285, RCIN 609300, RCIN 609419, RCIN 609433, and RCIN 600001. -
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15.5 x 8.8 cm (sheet of paper)
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