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Effigies MAURITII Hessaie Landgravii 1638
Engraving | 28.2 x 51.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 610702
Effigies MAURITII Hessaie Landgravii 1638
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Engraving of Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel and Agnes of Solms-Laubach, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel with their four children.
To the left the figure of Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse-Kasse: whole length with closed ruff, doublet, mantle, and hose. The Landgrave is pictured standing, with a plumed hat on a table to the left, and beside the figures of his three sons, Otto, Moritz, and Wilhelm V. To the right Agnes of Solms-Laubach, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel is pictured standing beside the figure of her daughter Elisabeth of Hesse-Kassel, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, with a closed volume and a vase of flowers on a table to the right. With Latin inscription above, supported by putti, with further inscriptions on cartouche below.
A plate from Monumentum sepulcrale, ad Illustrissimi Celsissimique Principis ac Domini, Dn. Mauritii Hassiae Landgravii ... memoriam Gloriae Sempiternam Erectum (1638). -
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28.2 x 51.0 cm (sheet of paper)
27.3 x 50.8 cm (platemark)
26.7 x 49.8 cm (image)
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